Edge computing and AWS Greengrass
Edge computing is not a new topic, but it can be confusing with all the marketing hype surrounding it today. The term edge is not unique in computing, and as early as the 1990s, teams were working on bringing content and data closer to end users to provide speed and efficiency. Edge caching of data or HTML pages on the web has been around for at least 20+ years.
We will flip the paradigm and focus on getting computing power closer to the data source rather than the consumer. Specifically, edge computing in our context is to move your computing power and processors as close to your machines and equipment as possible. We will leverage AWS Greengrass as our edge computer node in this chapter, but before we do a deep dive into this technology, let’s review some of the ideas for edge computing. There are many advantages, especially in IoT. Consider the following benefits:
- Pre-processing of data: When capturing large data streams from...
