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Edge Computing: Use Cases and Challenges

September 2019 Presentation
Grace Lewis

This talk presents use cases edge computing beyond IoT and discusses some of the challenges edge computing poses for software systems.

Publisher:

Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

The idea behind edge computing is to push applications, data, and computing power to the edge of the network, in close proximity to mobile devices, sensors, and end users. This concept has received much attention recently, driven mainly by the growing market of IoT devices and the large amount of data these devices produce.