Articles
Edge computing explained, from first principles to the operational detail.
Automating the Edge: How Platform Engineering Transforms Edge Computing
As digital transformation continues to disrupt industries across the board, platform engineering has emerged as a crucial set of practices and patterns for IT…
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Rethinking the Cloud-First Mandate: Why Modern Enterprises Are Rebalancing Towards On-Prem and Edge
This article is cowritten by Stefan Wallin with Avassa and Cristian Klein with Elastisys. From an information security perspective, 2025 started rough. First, we…
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Evaluating Edge Architectures: Vertical Solutions vs. Best-of-Breed Approaches
In the evolving landscape of edge computing, organizations face a pivotal decision: Should they opt for an all-in-one, vertically integrated edge stack, or assemble…
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A Guide to IT/OT Convergence in the Era of Edge Computing
Industrial organizations today face a simple but critical reality: operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) can no longer operate in isolation. As factories,…
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Azure IoT Hub Migration: Scalable Industrial IoT and Edge Alternatives
In the evolving landscape of industrial edge and IoT, developers are looking for stable, scalable, and efficient platforms to build their industrial edge systems.…
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What Is Edge Computing? Definition, Benefits & How It Works
Edge computing refers to a distributed computing model that processes and stores data close to where it is created, on local servers, gateways, or…
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Distributed Edge Computing Security: Challenges, Best Practices, and How to Protect Distributed Environments
Edge computing security is the practice of protecting the data, devices, and applications spread across distributed edge locations, where processing happens close to where…
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What Are Containers? A Complete Guide to Software and Application Containers
The term “container” refers to image files in a format defined by the Open Container Initiative (OCI) which was formed under the auspices of…
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What is Edge AI? Key Benefits & Why You Should Use It
Edge AI is a term we hear increasingly often within the category of edge computing. In this article, we’ll look closer at the definition…
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Smooth Sailing at the Edge: How to Migrate Legacy VMs to Containers with Avassa
Over the past decade, containerization has revolutionized the way applications are deployed and managed. While the shift toward containers has been rapid in cloud…
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Edge Observability – Shifting Left for Proactive Monitoring
As organizations shift critical workloads from the cloud to on-premise edge environments, they’re doing more than just changing deployment targets — they’re inheriting a…
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Edge Application Platform: Why You Don’t Need a Village to Scale Efficiently
”It takes a village” is an often cited idiom, commonly in the context of bringing up a child, and that a “child’s upbringing is…
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