Designing Low-Latency Services for Edge Environments
Edge environments pose a unique set of challenges for engineers accustomed to the relatively forgiving conditions of centralized data centers. At the edge, compute resources are often constrained, network links are variable, and the tolerance for delay is measured in milliseconds or even microseconds. A service that performs well in a cloud cluster can become unusable when deployed on a gateway device or a remote base station. Building low-latency services for these conditio