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Omnigress developed a fresh view of the otherwise stalled industry approach to deploying and running software. Edge computing is a way to go!

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I didn't read anything about edge computing in the project readme. Deploying a single instance would be the opposite of that.

Unless you mean edge as opposed to mainstream?

It's not currently spelled out in the readme, but our approach does lend for straightforward shipping of complete systems (data + code) to the edge because it's effectively just a replication of the database. We're working on further primitives that facilitate such an operational model.

We believe that a practical edge [backend] requires the presence of data next to the code, which is precisely what Omnigres promotes.

Does this mean omnigres could be used offline on mobile devices? Similar to an sqlite instance?

We are primarily talking about the backend side of this story at this time.

We'll see what the future will bring, as the real edge of computing is in user's hands.

There's a keen interest to get there for Omnigres applications, but the shape of that is still somewhat vague.

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