Emerging Technologies and Security
Edge Computing
Processing data close to where it is created.
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- 55 minutes of reading
- What edge computing isA clear introduction to edge computing: what it means to process data near where it is created, the different edge locations, why organisations use it, and the trade-offs compared with central cloud. 7 min · Beginner
- Edge versus fog versus cloudHow edge, fog and cloud computing differ and work together, what the term fog computing means, how to decide where a workload should run, and a worked example of a three-tier design. 7 min · Beginner
- Multi-access edge computing (MEC): compute inside the operator networkWhat multi-access edge computing is, how it places applications inside or beside the mobile network, how traffic is steered to it with 5G, what the ETSI MEC framework defines and the security points to check. 8 min · Intermediate
- AI at the edge: running models on local devicesWhy organisations run machine learning inference on cameras, gateways and edge servers, how models are shrunk for small hardware, what federated learning is, and how to secure edge models and their data. 8 min · Intermediate
- Securing edge computing sites and devicesThe particular risks of edge computing, from physical tampering and weak update processes to remote management exposure, and a layered set of controls from hardware root of trust to data protection. 9 min · Intermediate
- Edge computing use cases and how to choose themReal-world uses of edge computing across retail, manufacturing, healthcare, transport, energy and media, with a simple method to decide whether a workload belongs at the edge or in the cloud. 7 min · Beginner
- Managing and orchestrating edge sites at scaleHow organisations deploy, configure, update and monitor hundreds of edge sites: zero-touch provisioning, fleet management, lightweight Kubernetes, GitOps, staged rollouts and observability over unreliable links. 9 min · Advanced