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DOP 170: Running Containers at the Edge

DevOps Paradox

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Containers at the Edge - What Is the Edge?

The edge is a large network of places that can run your application. Under certain conditions, it might be best to run your application in a single hyperscale. In other conditions, maybe multiple hyperscalors or in another set of conditions, maybe we really want to be running this in hundreds of cities simultaneously. There are obvious benefits of running something as close to a user as possible. But what people are looking for at the moment is to do more smarter things in that distributor footprint so that they can not only reduce latency of images and CSS files but also the application execution itself.

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