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I keep hearing a lot about "edge computing", so here's my guess. Back in the 90s, companies would buy rooms full of servers for their big workloads and the use

I keep hearing a lot about "edge computing", so here's my guess. Back in the 90s, companies would buy rooms full of servers for their big workloads and the user-facing stuff would run on people's individual PCs. So the next big thing with cloud is, cloud will combine with edge computing to reverse this relationship: users' PCs will do analytics on behalf of big companies locally, and all the user facing stuff will run in big companies' datacenters, i.e., the cloud.

ghaff 4y ago
Edge is certainly part of the the answer of what is already happening to a significant degree--both in terms of what's new and in terms of essentially rebranding things that have been around for a while like distributed retail (which is also increasingly pulling in technologies like Kubernetes for various reasons). But I'm not sure that really captures what platforms look like which evolved with server virtualization and evolved with container orchestration. Certainly lots of rationalization and standardization still to happen in the current cycle but not sure there's a real view into what happens in the next major platform cycle. Edge really introduces more complexity, not less.
treeman79 4y ago
Yep. I had a pair of work stations that I had to flash the bios to get corporate security off of. So I could run Linux. Ran 4 call centers off those machines. Had huge signs on them not to touch. Anything I tried to do officially would cost 10-50 times as much and have a year delay in approval. I still refuse to work with IBM for infrastructure because of that job.