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this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2024
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Computing at the edge.
Reduces the need to send everything to the cloud and maintains privacy.
How does it maintain privacy?
Instead of sending the data to the cloud for calculation/analytics, it does it right there on the device.
For example, an Alexa or Google Home device sends everything you say after a wake-word back to Amazon or Google. A device with sufficient edge storage and compute would be able to do the same without sending your voice outside your home.
We're not quite there yet, but it's getting closer.
I'm pretty sure that's not what edge computing is. You've just described client-side computing.
The "edge" is similar to a CDN. Usually some kind of application layer code that's running in an ISP data center rather than in a cloud provider's data center.
I explained in a different comment... Talking about edge devices not the cloud: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/edge-computing/edge-devices.html
Isn't edge computing just a distributed cloud? With servers physically closer to end-user?
That's a cloud-centric interpretation. Like using CDNs. That'e been around for a while.
What I think will be interesting is intelligent processing and storage on end-node devices, like a home gateway, smart appliances, or wearable devices.
That would be cool