“If you’ve been hearing a lot of talk about “the cloud” over the past several years, then you may also have heard rumblings about something called “the edge.”

The term edge computing reflects the recognition that the cloud has boundaries. To reach those boundaries, your data has to connect with one of the physical datacenters powering the cloud. Getting data from a user’s computer to a cluster of servers might be quick in some settings, but it depends heavily on geographic location and network infrastructure. The cloud itself can be as fast and powerful as possible, but it can’t do much to offset the time required for the roundtrip your data has to make.” – read more at OpenSource.com!