Edge does make a lot of sense, but only if you’re actually talking about physical computers that need to exist at physical locations to do no-network/embedded s

Edge does make a lot of sense, but only if you’re actually talking about physical computers that need to exist at physical locations to do no-network/embedded systems/rtos without the cloud, but with a cloud-metrics or aggregation layer (or other apps) which explicitly do not need to be on a nearby computer to help the users, and often serve as a control plane for a set of edge resources. Think Tesla wanting to do BI on every car vs. having the car actually work for the user when they decide to drive through the network-disconnected wilderness. Server side rendering or “single optimization” as the “edge” is kind of an abuse of terms.