What Can Video Games Teach Us About Edge Computing?
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What Happens When You Press a Button on Your Controller?
When you press a button to move your character forward, it goes through the game locally. It gets processed and then it gets put into something called a packet. That packet goes out through the home user's internet connection that gets routed to the ISP,. If there's existing peering agreements, then yay, it gets things to where they need to go a lot faster. But in most cases, right, you're going to get kind of bounced around based on what the ISP thinks is the most efficient path.
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