Re:Revving Up For Edge Computing
by etaioinshrdlu on Monday November 11, 2019 @10:05PM
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It sounds a bit like pre-cloud business IT architecture. Put the servers somewhere on-site.
It is really hard to see much new here. 20 years ago you might put a Windows 2000 server in each restaurant... What's changed is we have better server management tools: ansible/puppet/docker/kube...
The reason we moved to the cloud was because the Internet gained massive capacity and there were economies of scale in huge datacenters.
What chick-fil-a is doing is'nt wrong, but feels more like the pendulum swinging than actually new tech.
It is really hard to see much new here. 20 years ago you might put a Windows 2000 server in each restaurant... What's changed is we have better server management tools: ansible/puppet/docker/kube...
The reason we moved to the cloud was because the Internet gained massive capacity and there were economies of scale in huge datacenters.
What chick-fil-a is doing is'nt wrong, but feels more like the pendulum swinging than actually new tech.