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by dx034 1885 days ago
Not the person you asked but for me, the discussion of Edge computing often misses if there are actually enough benefits. Slow response times are nearly always because the application is slow, not because the server is 100ms away instead of 5ms. Saving 100ms (or less for most probably) by deploying logic at the edge introduces much more complexity than shaving that time off through optimization would. Take this page as an example. I get response times of ~270ms (Europe to US-West I presume) and it still loads instantly. On the other hand I have enough systems at my office where I'm <1ms away from the application server and still wait forever for stuff to load.

I don't say that you don't need edge computing. But it'll always be more complex to run compared to a centralized system (plus vendor lock-in) and performance isn't a valid reason.