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That's interesting. It's like the "edge" in edge computing/caching is sort of a fractal developing over time. An edge becoming more and more tightly looped and
by mpalmer 4y ago
That's interesting. It's like the "edge" in edge computing/caching is sort of a fractal developing over time. An edge becoming more and more tightly looped and furled, while topologically, the network stays the same shape.
It's market forces that are causing the edge to fractalize, pushing the computing and storage hardware closer to the customer, but only to a point. It may take a different market and different forces to push the edge to its end state.
I think centralized compute and storage could very well end up ceding some ground to private, redundant, locally networked dedicated computing/storage substrates, which might take increasingly smaller and more exotic forms. What an interesting time that would be!