Joining us this week is Keith Townsend, The CTO Advisor, for a joint podcast of the L8ist Sh9y and CTO Advisor Podcast. Keith and Rob discuss the Edge Computing concept and several issues facing enterprise companies looking to move beyond the current cloud offerings. Key highlights from the podcast:
- What is the Edge? 2 Separate Definitions are Discussed
- Comparison of Edge and the Electricity Model
- Building and Managing Apps for Edge at Massive Scale
- Data vs Compute Gravity
Topic Time (Minutes.Seconds)
Introduction 0.00 – 1.30
What is Edge? 1.30 – 2.30
Hands-Off Edge Infrastructure 2.30 – 5.20 (Snowball Edge)
General Purpose App Stacks in Edge 5.20 – 6.38
AWS Predictions 6.38 – 7.32
Enterprise Model for Edge 7.32 – 9.24
Bernard Golden and Death Cloud 9.24 – 15.15 (Edge vs Electric Market / AWS in China)
Will Edge be Transaction Model? 15.15 – 19.32 (Workloads Space Access?)
What is the Edge? (Second Pass) 19.32 – 21.55
Scale of Edge / Thousands of Nodes 21.55 – 25.27 (Building Apps for Massive Scale)
Centrally Managed Edge 25.27 – 29.20 (Patch Management)
Cloud Outages 29.20 – 31.39
SAP Example 31.39 – 33.10
Scale and Automation from AWS 33.10 – 34.46
Edge not like Cloud for App Devs 34.46 – 37.04 (Control Plane too large for Edge)
Compute Now has Gravity 37.04 – 40.00 (Data vs Compute Gravity)
Conclusion and Wrap-Up 40.00 – END
Podcast Guest: Keith Townsend, CTO Advisor
Keith is a Principal CTO Advisor with 20 years of experience helping organizations achieve their mission through optimized IT infrastructures. Keith holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computing and a Master’s in IT Project Management from DePaul University. Follow Keith on Twitter @CTOAdvisor
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