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Edge IMHO implies being (very) close to the customer. As in, for example, IoT or running a service in an Internet Point of Presence maybe. But once your "in the
by steve1977 3y ago
Edge IMHO implies being (very) close to the customer. As in, for example, IoT or running a service in an Internet Point of Presence maybe. But once your "in the cloud", you're not really on the Edge anymore.
But the term seems to get used for everything and anything apparently.
- itake 3y agoHow would you describe hosting a static website in Singapore and in New York on AWS?
- jagged-chisel 3y agoMulti-region redundancy? Still not at the “edge” because I’m using your NY instance from Atlanta.
- weird-eye-issue 3y agoMulti region, definitely not even close to edge. If you want static site on the edge why not just use Cloudflare Pages
- itake 3y agoThis was just an example. If the users are in Singapore and the USA. I'm not sure what would be more 'edge' than this configuration.
- tetromino_ 3y agoMore 'edge' would be colocating your equipment in each major New York ISP's data center. One box for RCN, one for Optimum, one for Verizon... But some people would say if it's in any kind of data center, it's not true edge.
- weird-eye-issue 3y agoYou do realize that users travel right? And that the US is absolutely massive and there are wide latency differences between coast to coast? Using two DCs isn't "edge"
- steve1977 3y agoGeolocation-based load balancing, geo steering, something along these lines. Depends a bit on wether traffic from Singapore would be allowed to go to NY if the Singapore host goes down.
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- dexwiz 3y agoYeah I don’t get how anything in a data center can be called edge.
- steve1977 3y agoWell I could see it if it’s the customer’s data center.
- re-thc 3y agoThat's just moving goal posts. Now you have to define what's a data center. Your home or office with a bunch of computers can be classified as a data center. It might not be very redundant or efficient, but still.
- klodolph 3y agoI think a reasonable reader can figure out from context what “data center” means. If you have a bunch of computers in a home or office you might call it a rack, or a network closet, maybe a server room. Most people won’t call it a data center. If you complain that the definition of “data center” is inexact, you’re missing the point—the definition of “edge” is inexact, too. That’s okay. People have a good enough definition of “data center” that it doesn’t need to be explained here. And people also understand that given definitions are not perfectly precise—there are exceptions and unusual cases.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> Your home or office with a bunch of computers can be classified as a data center. Only in the way that a plucked chicken is a man. (http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Featherless_biped http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Featherless_biped)