# What the heck is the edge anyway?

DevFeed: [What the heck is the edge anyway?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-the-heck-is-the-edge-anyway-6108.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/what-the-heck-is-the-edge-anyway-a159a12f2412>)

Author: Glauber Costa

Published: 2023-02-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Turso Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/turso-blog.md>)

Topics: [Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/turso.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-computing.md>), [edge-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/edge-computing.md>), [offline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/offline.md>), [sdks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdks.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-development.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [turso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/turso.md>), [web-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-development.md>)

## AI overview

The post explains that Turso is a ground-up rewrite of SQLite. Turso Cloud allows databases to be queried over the network or synchronized with users' devices and servers, including offline support. It also notes that Turso databases are files rather than processes, so they do not sleep, cold-start, or require scale-to-zero.

## Source excerpt

By now you have heard about "the edge". But what does it really mean?