The title of this post is somewhat misleading. Local-first software rarely needs to be scaled at all. Harper recently received a massive increase in both traffic and user count. How? By making it to the front page of Hacker News. If you couldn't tell by the extent to which I talk about this, I'm thrilled. This amounted to a tremendous amount of free advertising, if nothing else. I've been thinking a lot about the wondrous benefits of working at the edge. That's just one term of many that people ...