It is *not* just a pendulum swing back to on-premise computing—it's way more interesting than that! Modern edge computing is truly expanding possibilities in how we can handle data-intensive operations.
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Take EV Charging, my current endeavor, as an example: instead of sending every transaction all the way up to the cloud and back around, local processing can handle energy distribution operations within milliseconds.
We're talking: complex AI models, real-time video analysis, and sophisticated sensor processing—all without the cloud's latency or
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Don't get me wrong. The cloud isn't going anywhere! But we're entering an era where the cloud handles the heavy lifting of analysis and insights, while edge devices can manage the immediate, critical operations—no matter how complex.
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1. Hardware has gotten incredibly powerful (and smaller!)
2. We've gotten better at building efficient applications.
**The result is that operations that previously needed cloud-scale computing can now run locally.**
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