#TheCloudShow - S2E4 - Cloud and the Edge

Edge computing can be defined as a “mesh network of micro data
centres that process or store critical data locally and push all
received data to a central data centre or cloud storage repository,
in a footprint of less than 100 square feet.” Now there are some
crystal ball gazers who are saying that Cloud is dead and Edge
computing is the future. But, where did Edge come from? A product
called NATS started this trend, where enterprise messaging systems
and platform technologies could be decomposed into things called
microservices using the processing capacity of devices at the end
user rather in remote computing. There is clear value in utilising
the processing power of devices that are close to the end user. The
key factor here lies in some basic physics – so if you did not pay
attention in school about the speed of light, you might have to
concentrate hard now.