Edge Computing ā¤ļø Platform Engineering
As digital transformation continues to disrupt industries across the board, platform engineering has emerged as a crucial set of practices and patterns for IT teams to enable self-service capabilities for…
As digital transformation continues to disrupt industries across the board, platform engineering has emerged as a crucial set of practices and patterns for IT teams to enable self-service capabilities for…
A large-scale edge computing initiative typically starts with a pilot. A well-planned and closely evaluated pilot paves way for an efficient, frictionless, and robust wider roll-out across all of your…
Before embarking on the edge pilot, your organization must clearly define why you are doing this. What are the business goals of moving workloads to the edge? Skunk projects can…
Applying a hybrid approach combining in-store and cloud software is becoming an increasingly important part of the digital transformation of retail stores. Hosting critical application components inside the stores with cloud backups unlocks many…
The Avassa System supports mounting devices into applications. Devices in this context are (typically) hardware that is attached to a host in an Avassa site. Examples are USB devices, e.g….
Organizations that run edge applications within their premises on local compute instead of central clouds make this decision for several reasons: latency requirements, regulations, and business continuity. The business must…
Using the right words is essential, but in most cases, one word means different things to different people. In many situations, the definition of a word depends on the context….
Most edge applications have some parts of the application running at edge sites and other parts running in a central location. Take the example of a camera-based analytics application. Image…
In the Avassa system, an application specification defines the container structure and associated application-specific configuration and secrets. You want to aim for keeping one application specification per application. The reason…
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…