Edge Computing

The way we use computers has changed significantly in the past few decades and so has the way technology is designed to give us the best service at first everything was done on a singular device in our homes and now we mainly use cloud computing whereby most activities from our emails to documents and virtually everything else is held online and our devices are essentially windows that grant us access to this the problem with cloud computing however is that most companies rely on the infrastructure of just a few cloud providers amazon microsoft google and ibm with amazon alone accounting for 47 of the market quite simply everything that can be moved onto the cloud has pretty much been done so already and there's very little room to grow in that space so others have been looking at the so-called edge of the cloud what this really means is that they're exploring ways to bring the processing and storage of the cloud geographically closer to where the user is in order to improve the experience rather than just relying on a few data centers it will see more work done locally and the idea is that this will significantly reduce latency will also improve privacy and security and will help reduce the bandwidth being used so the infrastructure doesn't buckle under the pressure of increased usage in many ways it may seem as if it's going back on the idea of cloud computing but it's really harnessing it to fuller effect if fingerprint or facial authorization is dealt with directly by your smartphone rather than waiting for a server to reply you'll be able to access your online content much easier similarly self-driving cars are currently the best example of edge computing rather than waiting for a server's response it can function independently but at the same time needs to be centrally controlled so it's automatically updated and so the algorithms can be improved.