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What the Heck Is the Edge — and Why Should You Care?

Let’s face it: our industry has a penchant for buzzwords. So you would be forgiven for thinking that “https://thenewstack.io/what-is-edge-computing/” is just yet another such buzzword.

Wikipedia defines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_computing as “a distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data.

When they talk about “pushing compute to the edge,” they are likely talking about compute that happens inside the device.

Those edge locations are not as powerful and capable as cloud data centers, but they are still data centers.