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by weird-eye-issue 1049 days ago
That's a terrible "definition" of edge
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bradenb 1049 days ago
I'd love to hear a better one. Care to comment?
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weird-eye-issue 1049 days ago
To me edge is when you are doing most computation and data retrieval required for the given request in a data center close to each user. How to define close? Probably when you have at least several dozen POPs spread out across the world
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