Edge can be defined as many things, and is currently being defined by the world in many ways.
At StackPath our definition of Edge is basically being as close as possible to the eyeballs aka users. Think of it as the front door to the internet.
Today our Edge expands across major IX's around the world and that's just the beginning. 5G is approaching us quickly along with container data centers.
The way we built our orchestration system it can deploy and manage workloads anywhere. In the future, that will include 5G container data centers which gets workloads even closer to things like self-driving cars, smart cities, IoT devices, <insert your idea here>.
"workloads even closer to things like self-driving cars, smart cities, IoT devices"
Oh, please. If you really need those last few milliseconds of lag reduced, you need local computation. If you don't, an AWS datacenter on the same continent is probably good enough.
At StackPath our definition of Edge is basically being as close as possible to the eyeballs aka users. Think of it as the front door to the internet.
Today our Edge expands across major IX's around the world and that's just the beginning. 5G is approaching us quickly along with container data centers.
The way we built our orchestration system it can deploy and manage workloads anywhere. In the future, that will include 5G container data centers which gets workloads even closer to things like self-driving cars, smart cities, IoT devices, <insert your idea here>.