Bringing up an Edge Application Platform: “It takes a village”
Have you ever heard the expression “It takes a village”? ”It takes a village” is an often cited idiom, commonly in the context of bringing up a child, and that…
Are containerized edge applications your new IoT platform?
IoT as a term and technology has existed for decades and the use of an IoT Platform is consequently widely spread. It has been widely deployed in the medical, transportation,…
Making the edge lovable for your development and application operations team
How easy is it to develop and manage the lifecycle of edge applications? According to The Reality of Edge Application Development, here is where the industry is today: Developing, deploying…
What is Edge AI and why should you 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 of Edge AI and what business-critical…
What differentiates modern edge computing from legacy on-premises applications?
I had an interesting conversation with a long-time friend in the IT industry a while ago. She has run IT operations for several enterprises in various domains. She has been…
What are 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 the Linux Foundation in 2015. Containers…
CI/CD tools and Avassa: how to build a successful integration
All our customers have already invested in CI/CD for their cloud applications and we aim to be a very good citizen in those environments. This article describes in detail what…
“I just want to run my containers”
Developing modern cloud applications requires that the developer can handle both traditional programming, as well system operations. This is also true for applications deployed to a distributed network of edge…
Edge Shifting – what is it and why should you think about it a little differently?
As development and operations teams start using the tools provided by the cloud-native ecosystem, they have good reasons to celebrate the improvements in efficiency and agility brought on by this…
The second application challenge for distributed edge clouds
I spend my days thinking about the value edge-applications can bring to my users and business, but I had not given any thought about the implications of not having a…