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Edge Computing – The New Frontier of the Web
- brootstrap 9y agoIs this actually a new frontier of the web? It seems more just like 'smart engineering' rather then some new thing. My version of 'edge computing' involves a guitar, a sweet beanie, and a butt load of guitar pedals. In fact, guitar pedals are a form of edge computing now that i think of it. Instead of sending your guitar signal to the cloud for processing, and then sending back to your amp, run your compute on the edge and bypass all the cloud network I/O. brilliant!
- dawenzed 9y agoI read the premise of the article, chuckled and thought "wow! this is common sense". Even with networking so ubiquitous nowadays its not like you compute everything in the cloud. Compute locally (on the edge) for control where required and perhaps hoist your monitoring and analytics in the cloud with an appropriate division of labour.
- cat199 9y agoTotally new frontier. You see, before, you had things doing 'local' and 'central' computing by interfacing with 'equipment', and this is, you see, 'edge' computing talking to 'smart devices' and 'the cloud'. Completely different!
- tootie 9y agoThis reminds of the "thin client" vs "thick client" debate of the early 2000s.
- digi_owl 9y agoEverything old is new again?