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MAYBE YOU ARE STILL getting up-to-speed with the whole concept of cloud computing. If so, I have a lot of sympathy for you because there is so much to learn and because cloud technologies advance so rapidly. Here's one more important concept to add to that pile of things to learn-edge computing. The good news is that edge computing is a technology designed to answer the very specific use-case of high-performance IoT applications. If you don't have IoT applications in-house or your organization never will have them, then you can safely skip this discussion.
A New Data Processing Model: Edge Computing
One of the most significant impediments to very demanding cloud-based applications is the latency of making several hops across the internet backbone to your Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS data center. Once there, the data is processed, and then it must be sent all the way back to the client. That is simply too slow a data-processing paradigm for a wide variety of applications, especially IoT applications such as connected/autonomous cars or security systems with...