Category Archives: Edge Computing

Syed Zaaem Hosain on Edge, IoT, and Reality

Joining us this week is Syed Zaeem Hosain, CTO and Founder of Aeris from the KeyBanc Emerging Tech Summit.

Aeris is a technology partner with a proven history of helping companies unlock the value of IoT. For more than a decade, we’ve powered critical projects for some of the most demanding customers of IoT services. Aeris strives to fundamentally improve businesses by dramatically reducing costs, accelerating time-to-market, and enabling new revenue streams. Built from the ground up for IoT and globally tested at scale, Aeris IoT Services are based on the broadest technology stack in the industry, spanning connectivity up to vertical solutions. As veterans of the industry, we know that implementing an IoT solution can be complex, and we pride ourselves on making it simpler

Ash Young Talks Everything in your PC is IoT

Joining us this week is Ash Young, Chief Evangelist of Cachengo and OPNFV Ambassador. Cachengo builds smart, predictive storage for machine learning.

NOTE – We had a microphone problem that is solved at the 9 minute 19 second mark of the podcast. Start there if you find the clicking noise an issue

Blockchain Technology Partners on their Startup and Key Issues of Blockchain

Joining us this week is the team from Blockchain Technology Partners: Duncan-Johnston-Watt, Kevin O’Donnell, and Mike Zaccardo live from GlueCon 2018 in Colorado.

Blockchain Technology Partners is an Edinburgh-based technology startup:
• Mission – to radically simplify the enterprise adoption of blockchain technologies
• Goal – to reduce the cost and complexity of doing business through decentralization while ensuring trust, transparency and accountability in a distributed world
• Focus – providing a production-ready blockchain platform and partnering with businesses to deliver blockchain-based solutions

Highlights
• Who is Blockchain Technology Partners and Company Objectives
• What is Blockchain: Distributed Transaction Log and Consensus
• Decentralization of Ledgers and Centralization Weakness (Bitcoin e.g)
• Use Cases for Blockchain
• Publication Components of Blockchain; its Middle-Ware
• Trusted Authorities and Broker Replacement (Shipping e.g.)
• Edge Computing and Blockchain Examples
• Data Responsibility and Local Blockchains
• Blockchain Technology Partners Open Source Model and Technology

Simon Crosby on Revolutionary Architecture Requirements for Edge

Joining us this week is Simon Crosby, CTO at SWIM.AI. Simon discusses the architecture for Edge and its differences from existing cloud infrastructure and how the SWIM.AI solution meets the needs for Edge services.

Highlights
• Challenges in Edge
• Data is Complete Disruption in Current Models
• Don’t Train in Cloud for Edge; Instead Learn on Fly
• All About Data – Apps can’t be Written for Data Specifically
• Example of Sensor Model at Traffic Light in Self-Learning Model
• Digital Twin Concept & Actor Model
• SWIM.AI Innovation ~ always as though its local
• Independent Management of Latency and Resource Utilization
• Write the Program from the Data
• Example of Manufacturer with Millions of RFID Tags
• Limitations of Having People Involved in Everything

Matt Trifiro talks Jitter, Real Estate and Augmented Reality for Edge

Joining us this week is Matt Trifiro, CMO of Vapor.io. Matt offers insight into how Edge infrastructure and 5G will be deployed to meet the increased demand for low latency, high data distributed technology.

Highlights
• Edge is a place: the last mile network
• Jitter at the Edge (Jitter definition)
• Data sovereignty and location
• Apps for Edge have are not similar to existing apps for communication processes
• Edge as multi-vendor data sharing environment
• Real estate problem – solved by Akamai
• Vision of schedulers on keeping apps running vs keeping apps fast
• Cloud providers will extend into the Edge
• Augmented reality discussion of video and latency (Digital Twin)
• Importance of 5G to Edge and commercial impact
• Real estate is key in Edge computing
• Building and Managing Edge infrastructure
• What does Vapor do?

Jordan Rinke on Open Source, Kubernetes, & Edge Computing

Joining us this week is Jordan Rinke, Principal Software Engineer, Walmart Labs. Jordan offers his views on various technologies and open source projects as it relates to the scale and connectivity issues faced by Walmart.

Highlights
• Technical Gaps in Kubernetes Technologies and Installer Issues
• Tooling and Orchestration Focus for Kubernetes and Other Tools
• Core OS Model for Bootstrapping Kubernetes
• Discussion on Immutability: Middle Ground for Jordan
• Edge Computing – Emerging markets lead to disconnected edge sites
• Data location challenges in edge and cloud services
• Skills issues for medium sized clusters

Chetan Venkatesh talks Edge, IoT, and Dishwashers as a Service

Joining us this week is Chetan Venkatesh, CEO/President of Macrometa, a stealth startup. Chetan is actively engaged in the data issues for edge computing and provides insight into the reality of edge computing and its changes in application development and delivery.

Highlights
• Overview of Edge Computing and Chetan’s 3 Edges
• Internet of things, gateways and data aggregation
• Can Telcos compete against cloud providers?
• How apps handle massive scale? Developer’s support? Distributed architecture?
• Multi-tenancy impact on edge infrastructure?
• Re-think where data resides to support user location
• What is possible with IoT is unknown
• What are the first movers in the edge computing space?

Baruch Sadogursky on Pipeline, Immutability, and Edge

Joining us this week is Baruch Sadogursky, Head of Developer Relations at JFrog. Baruch is an industry veteran in management of complex software and is a fantastic event speaker; I highly recommend attending his sessions at a future event. Short promotion for JFrog Swamp Up (May 16 – 18, 2018)

Highlights
• Short overview of JFrog and its relationship to CI/CD pipelines
• Discussion of immutability (shifting left) in deployment paradigms
• Metadata and the impact of scale (Toyota Manufacturing Model)
• How can I update software components with confidence?
• Distributed programming and impact of edge computing