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Relational Data at the Edge: How Cloudflare Operates Distributed PostgreSQL Clusters
Explore Cloudflare's distributed PostgreSQL clusters and learn how a cross-region architecture ensures resilience. Discover how data storage and access at the edge deliver massive performance gains by reducing location-sensitive latency and why architecting for degraded states is much harder than for failure states.
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The Role of Digital Twins in Unlocking the Cloud's Potential
This article explores the use of the DT concept as a new way to make cloud services more developer-friendly. This new model aligns the development, deployment, and now the runtime aspects of a microservice into a single, cohesive unit, bridging the gap between developers and the cloud and paving the way for a new era of cloud services.
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Data Patterns for the Edge: Data Localization, Privacy Laws, and Performance
With growing competition to get data that power experiences to the end-user closer and closer and the advent of local data privacy laws, let's look at different enterprise data patterns like “synchronous data retrieval”, “subsequent data retrieval” and “prefetch data retrieval” on data center.
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InfoQ Mobile and IoT Trends Report 2022
This report summarizes the views of the InfoQ editorial team and of several practitioners from the software industry about emerging trends in a number of areas that we collectively label the mobile and IoT space. This is a rather heterogeneous space comprising devices and gadgets from smartphones to smart watches, from IoT appliances to smart glasses, voice-driven assistants, and so on.
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Local-First Cooperation: Autonomy at the Edge, Secured by Crypto, 100% Available
Why do two local devices need the cloud to be able to communicate? Shouldn't we be able to enable robust cooperation between nearby computing devices? This idea is the realm of local-first cooperation. In what follows, the author discusses the technologies used to make it function and a few places where work is still needed.
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Network Edge 5G Computing Technologies Predicted to Make Dramatic Changes to Business Operations
Implementing network edge 5G technologies can offer many advantages, but also presents challenges for your team. In this article, we’ll take a look at promise and risk of network edge 5G models.
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InfoQ 2020 Recap, Editor Recommendations, and Best Content of the Year
As 2020 is coming to an end, we created this article listing some of the best posts published this year. This collection was hand-picked by nine InfoQ Editors recommending the greatest posts in their domain. It's a great piece to make sure you don't miss out on some of the InfoQ's best content.
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Server-Side Wasm - Q&A with Michael Yuan, Second State CEO
WebAssembly can be used server-side to provide the performance required by use cases such as blockchains and edge AI services. Non-standard extensions may address those use cases today, possibly weakening WebAssembly portability benefits. The gathered experience may however provide important inputs to current and future WebAssembly proposals.
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State at the Edge: an Interview with Peter Bourgon
Building upon topics in his talk at QCon London, Peter Bourgon answers questions about edge computing, distributed data, and the complexity of synchronization.
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Edge Computing and Flow Evolution
Edge computing echoes science from the field of complex adaptive systems that explains scaling patterns. Understand this science to make better decisions about what to run "on the edge."
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The Modern Edge
This article shares stories of how interesting companies are using edge computing in ways you might not expect to solve real problems and help build a better Internet.
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Deploying Edge Cloud Solutions without Sacrificing Security
Security challenges exist with edge cloud solutions. Some are technical, and some relate to the way in which these services are used. This article looks at the why, what, and how of edge security.