Lee Robinson, Vercel’s VP of Developer Experience, posted a “Delete edge functions examples” pull request on the company’s GitHub. In there, he informed that Edge Functions will be deprecated and suggested the full Node.js runtime with Fluid Compute instead.
According to Robinson, Functions using Fluid should keep the benefits of Edge Functions without the limited Edge runtime. As most workloads have 1-3 regions for their data storage where compute should be co-located, he advised the users to make sure their Vercel Function region is the same as the database.
It’s important to note that, while this pull request is now public, there is no need for action just yet. While there will be more information on this in the coming months, Robinson noted that existing users “might consider moving to Fluid anyway” in preparation for the change.
Read the pull request for additional information.
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