边缘计算Edge Computing

最近工作有接触到这个概念，先贴点资料在这里吧。

Overview

Edge computing pushes applications, data and computing power (services) away from centralized points to the logical extremes of a network. Edge computing takes advantage of microservices architectures to allow some portion of applications to be moved to the edge of the network. While Content Delivery Networks have moved fragments of information across distributed networks of servers and data stores, which may spread over a vast area, Edge Computing moves fragments of application logic out to the edge. As a technological paradigm, edge computing may be architecturally organized as peer-to-peer computing, autonomic (self-healing) computing, grid computing, and by other names implying non-centralized availability.

To ensure acceptable performance of widely dispersed distributed services, large organizations typically implement edge computing by deploying server farms with clustering and large scale storage networks. Previously available only to very large corporate and government organizations, edge computing has disseminated technology advances and cost reductions from large-scale implementations and made the technology available to small and medium-sized businesses.[7] Small, low-cost cluster hardware and freely-available cluster management software have increased accessibility.

The target of Edge Computing is any application or general functionality needing to be closer to the source of the action where distributed systems technology interacts with the physical world. Edge Computing does not need contact with any centralized Cloud. Edge Computing does use a similar or the same distributed systems architecture as centralized Clouds but closer to or directly at the Edge.

Edge computing imposes certain limitations on the choices of technology platforms, applications or services, all of which need to be specifically developed or configured for edge computing.