Edge Computing and Lady Gaga
On twitter I look randomly at the number of followers: Deutsche Telekom (DT) AG has 72.7K, MobiledgeX has 0.44K. Lady Gaga has 78,000K, This is bigger than the UK population
Only a few stop and think. Why an entertainment star attracts so many people?
All other onlookers say "Sure, what do you expect? She is an artist and we are techies." What can we learn as tech magicians from her hypnotic attraction?
Every time a new buzz word crops up, edge computing for example, we start to read a few articles. consult Wikipedia. and we think we understand what it is. At that stage only the technical jargon is clear for a few insiders. Marketing still works to understand and scratches its' head.
I dare to say 90% of the people who claim to understand what edge computing is, struggle. They bluff their doubts. Is edge computing one application? No, it consists of many applications. Is it a platform? Maybe yes or maybe not, depending of whom you ask. Does edge computing make people happy? We hope so, but we don't know yet. Can I touch and smell it? Yes, if I am a developer , but like most people I am not
Unlike edge computing a smart phone is in the hands of billions of people, it awakes emotions, passionate debates and feelings of "I-must-have-it."
It is the story, the experience. that human being want to hear. Yuval Noah Harari in his book. "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" writes
Explaining what a smart phone does and how to use it to an extraterrestrial is not simple An Android phone is quite complex. Or try to explain them how to drive a car, Like humans, they must drive first themselves and learn. This is how self-driving cars learn: using machine learning (ML) and AI.
Unlike a phone or car, we can't get a piece of edge computing and say "Lets try it" . To try what? Edge computing does not have boundary, it is just made of hundred of thousands of solutions to new problems cropping every day.
The word Edge is a cliche and "speaking in cliches is problematic, because the world itself contains a far broader range of rainfalls, moons, sunshines and emotions than stock expressions capture and teach us to expect."
I noticed the dominant cliche mainstream people have about Edge includes a car. I am in Washington D,C and I want to drive a car in Afghanistan. Then I need a very low latency in Afghanistan.
This might be a scenario, but beside defense, can a for profit business offer this? MobiledgeX has mobility and is bringing the cloud closer to the device (in this case a car) creating an edge ecosystem.
An ingenious solution on MobiledgeX platform is edgemesh, described in a blog by Rolf Muralt, VP of Product Management. It speed up content delivery, network 3.5x.
What does it mean? A 100 ms page load, will happen in 28 ms and with further refinements can go as low as 10 ms
Quoting Jacob Loveless, the CEO of edgemesh Inc, “This is a result that often arouses an aha! feeling—one that is generally brief, concise, and beautiful to the mind's eye,”
These words start touching a bit Lady Gaga charisma,.The poet Rimbaud wrote as a 16 years old
“The Poet makes himself a seer by a long, gigantic and rational derangement of all the senses”
Only a few stop and think. Why an entertainment star attracts so many people?
All other onlookers say "Sure, what do you expect? She is an artist and we are techies." What can we learn as tech magicians from her hypnotic attraction?
Every time a new buzz word crops up, edge computing for example, we start to read a few articles. consult Wikipedia. and we think we understand what it is. At that stage only the technical jargon is clear for a few insiders. Marketing still works to understand and scratches its' head.
I dare to say 90% of the people who claim to understand what edge computing is, struggle. They bluff their doubts. Is edge computing one application? No, it consists of many applications. Is it a platform? Maybe yes or maybe not, depending of whom you ask. Does edge computing make people happy? We hope so, but we don't know yet. Can I touch and smell it? Yes, if I am a developer , but like most people I am not
Unlike edge computing a smart phone is in the hands of billions of people, it awakes emotions, passionate debates and feelings of "I-must-have-it."
It is the story, the experience. that human being want to hear. Yuval Noah Harari in his book. "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" writes
"Humans think in stories rather than in facts , numbers , or equations , and the simpler the story , the better"The Edge story is not Lady Gaga's story. But we could and should make it like Lady Gaga
Unlike a phone or car, we can't get a piece of edge computing and say "Lets try it" . To try what? Edge computing does not have boundary, it is just made of hundred of thousands of solutions to new problems cropping every day.
The word Edge is a cliche and "speaking in cliches is problematic, because the world itself contains a far broader range of rainfalls, moons, sunshines and emotions than stock expressions capture and teach us to expect."
I noticed the dominant cliche mainstream people have about Edge includes a car. I am in Washington D,C and I want to drive a car in Afghanistan. Then I need a very low latency in Afghanistan.
This might be a scenario, but beside defense, can a for profit business offer this? MobiledgeX has mobility and is bringing the cloud closer to the device (in this case a car) creating an edge ecosystem.
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| MobiledgeX architecture sketch has a car to satisfy a popular cliche perception |
An ingenious solution on MobiledgeX platform is edgemesh, described in a blog by Rolf Muralt, VP of Product Management. It speed up content delivery, network 3.5x.
What does it mean? A 100 ms page load, will happen in 28 ms and with further refinements can go as low as 10 ms
Quoting Jacob Loveless, the CEO of edgemesh Inc, “This is a result that often arouses an aha! feeling—one that is generally brief, concise, and beautiful to the mind's eye,”
These words start touching a bit Lady Gaga charisma,.The poet Rimbaud wrote as a 16 years old
“The Poet makes himself a seer by a long, gigantic and rational derangement of all the senses”
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