Edge is now active in 82 countries. We’ve served hundreds of billions of requests in the mainnet; provided 51 written technology & project updates; delivered multiple releases of API, Edit, CDN and DNS; and have evolved Stargate, Gateway and Host beyond recognition, with core services now fully network native.
The Year in Review
2020 has been a tough year full of unexpected challenges for everyone, either financially, emotionally or both.
For Edge it meant a significant shift in business, with a series of large-scale in plan engagements cancelled on the back of the rapidly changing landscape. A few members of our team contracted COVID-19, and one of my business partners was taken seriously ill. But we rolled with the punches, reshaping and refocusing the business, continuing to push forward to deliver on the vision of the Edge network.
It's been a challenging year on a personal level as well. Like most of us, I've been locked up at home for months and unable to travel to visit family. Fortunately as a business we've been a remote team since inception back in 2013 (https://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2015/oct/15/flexible-working-pragmatic-entrepreneurs-employees-productivity), so we're very well versed in remote working. But even so, going from ten+ flights a year and three+ days of face-to-face meetings a week to none at all has been a pretty radical change.
Of course we remain in the midst of a pandemic. But it won't last forever. And with luck we can take the positives that come from the experience (increased technical literacy, reduction in emissions and the acceptance of remote working) forward with us.
It's so hard to summarise what the team have accomplished this year. And it feels like yesterday that I posted the 2019 TL;DR (https://edge.network/en/updates/network/2019-tldr/).
Since then I've written 51 weekly updates, charting the year in development terms in real time.
Here are a few of my highlights:
- Moving API to version 6, aligning it directly with the network's codebase
- The introduction of Edge Console
- The launch of subscriptions for CDN, enabling end to end service delivery and payment within Console
Updates
Last Updated:
December 2020
