Unlock the Mystery of Edge Computing: Don't Fall for the Hype!

In this video, we're going to talk about "the edge," a buzzword that's been going around the tech world. But what exactly is it? Essentially, edge computing is the idea of processing data in a geographically closer location before sending it back to a centralized location. In other words, computing doesn't need to be done in one centralized location and then sent to or received from a network-connected device. This concept has evolved to be associated with the Internet of Things (IoT), and devices such as phones, cameras, sensors, household appliances, and vehicles can process information locally or send it to a server for processing.
To explain what edge computing means in practice, the video provides two real-life examples: Chick-fil-a and connected cars. Chick-fil-a has developed and shipped mini Kubernetes clusters to each of their locations, allowing for local computation to happen at the store and call back to home with the details. Connected cars, like Teslas, process a significant amount of data within the vehicle itself, including advanced safety and convenience features that use cameras and sensors throughout the car.
The video also touches on "fog computing," which is somewhere between edge computing and traditional cloud computing at data centers. For example, a company network with a bunch of different sensors like motion sensors, smart lights, and monitoring could bring the data together on the network to get valuable data and make decisions without consuming as much general internet bandwidth.
Finally, the video talks about edge networking, a term that applies the same concepts but is slightly different from traditional edge computing. Edge networking is often related to content delivery networks that physically distribute caching servers around the globe. Services like Cloudflare and Vercel offer the ability to distribute parts of your website logic out to the edge as well. This takes the strain off of your server that would have to serve all of the dynamic content on its own.
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00:00 - Intro
00:27 - What is the edge?
01:17 - What is edge computing?
02:06 - Examples of edge computing
03:05 - What is fog computing?
03:49 - What is Edge Networking?
04:57 - What really matters

[@olpporsetty]

I can simplify it even more: edge computing is CDNs for CPUs

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