How do you define edge computing? ...and, more importantly, what does it mean for your architecture?
Ask three people what edge computing is and you’ll likely get three different answers. The last mile is a phrase used by telecommunication networks to indicate the last point where a telco delivers services to a customer. On one side of that last mile is the Device Edge (think things like IoT/IIoT, phones, & devices). On the other, is the Infrastructure Edge (think cellular towers, regional data centers, and CDN running application logic from Node, to K8s, to serverless functions).
This track explores architectures leveraging the device and infrastructure edges in modern application architecture. This is a track that explores pushing code closer to the user than ever before to handle new and innovative use case. Look for talks exploring federated learning through training localized machine learning models on device, k8s clusters being deployed to hundreds if not thousands of on-prim locations, Web Assembly (WASM/WASI) implementations in caching tiers, and application architectures for application gateways, content delivery, streaming, and more.
While the modern edge may not be the easiest thing to define, the edge is a place to deliver value to your customers and is altering what we think is possible for application architecture.
