the.com/edge computing
processing data where it's born instead of mailing it to a distant brain and waiting.
means a setup where computation happens near the device or sensor generating data rather than in a centralized cloud data center.
from emerged as clouds got congested and latency-sensitive gadgets multiplied, borrowing the network-topology term edge to mean the physical outer boundary closest to users, as opposed to the core.
latency wincan cut response time from seconds to milliseconds
driverself-driving cars cannot wait for a round trip to ohio
tradeofftrades centralized power for distributed complexity and maintenance
scaleoften runs on thousands of tiny nodes, not one giant server