the.com/edge devices
tiny computers doing the thinking so the cloud doesn't have to wait around.
means hardware that processes data near where it's generated, instead of shipping it all to a distant server first.
from the term rides on network topology jargon, where the edge is the perimeter of a network farthest from the core data center, and by the 2010s iot sensors, cameras, and phones pushed computation to that perimeter to cut latency.
latency winmilliseconds instead of round-trip seconds to the cloud
bandwidth saverprocesses locally, sends only the useful bits
everywhere alreadyyour smart thermostat is one
security tradeoffmore attack surface, scattered across every device