The concept of putting more computing power closer to where applications are occurring, commonly referred as “edge computing”, has been talked about for a long time. After all, it makes logical sense to put resources nearer to where they’re actually needed. Plus, as people have come to recognize that not everything can or should be run in hyperscale cloud data centers, there has been increasing interest in diversifying both the type and location of the computing capabilities necessary to run cloud-based applications and services.
