Revving Up For Edge Computing

Re:Revving Up For Edge Computing by tyingq on Sunday November 10, 2019 @05:50PM (#21500697)

There do seem to be many different definitions of "edge". The parent and grandparent above, big CDNs with "edge functions", etc.

Has anyone compiled a list of concrete example use cases?

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Re:Revving Up For Edge Computing by darau1 on Sunday November 10, 2019 @06:08PM (#21500785)

Not to my knowledge, but I've found one that calls itself an 'edge' service, and some I might classify as 'edge'.

- snips.ai calls itself an 'edge' ai service because all the computation is done on your device.

- ledger cli is one small project that I consider to fall under the 'edge' umbrella, because all it's 'computation' is done on your own device, even though that's a tiny amount of computation.

- taskwarrior is another that I might call edge, because it also handles all computation, reporting, etc, on your device. There can be a server involved, but it only handles synchronization of data, i.e. federation

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Re:Revving Up For Edge Computing by zrail on Sunday November 10, 2019 @06:36PM (#21500924)

I would not include ledger in that category. Ledger is just software.

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Re:Revving Up For Edge Computing by darau1 on Sunday November 10, 2019 @07:06PM (#21501095)

I can see your point. If ledger is edge, then so is firefox, or notepad. The definition would be too broad to be useful.

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