Aren't most edge computing reffered to as fog-computing? Or is it just in academia
Re:Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A
by uncreativebrian on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:20PM
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Hey this is Brian -- I wrote the article. I have heard the term a lot over the years. I think you could call it that -- the idea being its the "foggy" area between the user and the cloud. The reason we like "micro private cloud" is that 1) its a tiny environment with limited cloud properties (no elastic scale) but 2) we do try and provide a platform with cloud-like services for our internal developers, and we like the cloud paradigms being applied to how we think about compute at the edge, in restaurants.
Re:Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A
by coffeesn0b on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @05:16PM
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Interesting - why? (this is Caleb, one of the authors and lead SRE for the project)
Re:Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A
by reaperducer on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @05:24PM
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Interesting - why?
Because more than one person on the team has a background in meteorology, and to them a localized cloud event is "fog." I think it started as a joke, but it just kind of stuck.
It helps that our events that require localized cloud infrastructure are sporadic, just the way real fog is. And just like real fog, we don't always know where it will be. Once or twice a year we have to deploy about 150 devices to a different location in the desert. Then as quickly as we arrived, we pack up and move on.
Re:Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A
by coffeesn0b on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @05:56PM
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That is epic, and i am stealing that name.
We call local clouds "fogs."