> vanilla web apps wrapping CRUD This is the only use case you see for what I described? Most data processing I saw works exactly like that, too: some compute

> vanilla web apps wrapping CRUD This is the only use case you see for what I described? Most data processing I saw works exactly like that, too: some compute cluster using a shared persistence layer (either object store or a network filesystem). Edge computing, otoh, explicitly exists because not everything can be handled well in that way.