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I was curious about what problem was being solved too. I can't imagine what a chicken restaurant needs with a distributed k8's cluster.

• organsnyder 8y ago
  I'm wondering the same thing, and it looks like a lot of other people are too—from the bottom of the article: > Edit 7/2/18 — since writing this, many readers have asked “why not just use the cloud? Why computing at the Edge?”. We have realized that we did not provide much context about why we’re doing what we’re doing, so we will follow up with an post about that soon.
  • shaklee3 8y ago
    They somewhat cleared it up in a comment. Low latency was one reason.
    • coffeesn0b 8y ago
      (I'm re-pasting this intro to a few posters) Hey! I'm Caleb, the SRE that helped build this solution... Sorry about the lack of context in the article, it was intended for a specific audience (QCon) where we gave a lot more context to the problem at hand. What we were trying to solve for was; 1) Low latency 2) High Availability 3) Container based, zero-downtime deployments 4) Continued operations even in an internet-down event