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ZEDEDA Launches Managed Kubernetes for the Distributed Edge
ZEDEDA, a San Jose-based developer and provider of edge computing virtualization software, announced during KubeCon NA 2023 a managed Kubernetes solution for the edge. The service is based on a partnership with SUSE and offers a centrally-managed, turn-key User edge solution built on the open source operating system Eve and Rancher’s lightweight Kubernetes distribution K3s.
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Azure Announces Jumpstart Agora, a Collection of Cloud-to-Edge Examples
Microsoft recently introduced Jumpstart Agora, a new initiative to provide end-to-end industry scenarios for cloud-to-edge solutions. The first project that has been released is Contoso Supermarket, a sample point-of-sale application.
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Living on the Edge: Boosting Your Site's Performance with Edge Computing
Erica Pisani, senior software engineer at Netlify, presented at QCon London on what edge is, how running code and serving data on the edge can improve site performance, and how to leverage these options effectively in a site to maximize site performance with minimal architectural changes.
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Developing Software to Manage Distributed Energy Systems at Scale
Functional programming techniques can make software more composable, reliable, and testable. For systems at scale, trade-offs in edge vs. cloud computing can impact speed and security.
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Amazon Releases Elastic Kubernetes Service for Snowball Edge
Amazon has released Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere on Snow. This release automates the creation and management of EKS clusters on AWS Snowball Edge devices. These devices are able to run with or without an internet connection.
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Azure Durable Functions Now Supports Storage Backends Microsoft Netherite and MSSQL
Microsoft recently announced that Azure Durable Functions support for the new storage providers, Netherite and Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), is generally available.
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gopaddle, a Low Code Internal Developer Platform for MicroK8s and Edge
gopaddle is a low-code internal developer platform (IDP) for MicroK8s edge cloud. It aims to simplify and accelerate the development of edge cloud applications by providing a web-based interface to Kubernetes developers for creating, deploying, and managing applications.
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Microsoft Brings Its Cloud Services and AI to the Edge
Microsoft recently announced the open-source release of Azure DeepStream Accelerator (ADA) in collaboration with Neal Analytics and NVIDIA, allowing developers to build Edge AI solutions with native Azure Services integration quickly.
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Vercel Launches Edge Functions to Provide Compute at the Edge
Recently, Vercel announced the general availability of Edge Functions, which are either JavaScript, TypeScript, or WebAssembly functions. According to the company, these functions are generally both less expensive and faster than traditional Serverless Functions.
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KubeCon NA 2022: Edge-Native Application Principles
Edge computing is an extension to cloud computing. Companies are interested in bringing their cloud-native infrastructure and applications to the edge. Kate Goldenring and Amar Kapadia spoke at KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Conference about the progress made by the CNCF IoT Edge working group on principles to consider for edge-native applications.
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New Stanford Compute-In-Memory Chip Promises to Bring Efficient AI to Low-Power Devices
In a paper recently published in Nature, Stanford researchers presented a new compute-in-memory (CIM) chip using resistive random-access memory (RRAM) that promises to bring energy efficient AI capabilities to edge devices.
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Node-RED 3 Improves Its Node Editor, Runtime Features, and Debugging
Node-RED, the flow-based visual programming environment originally developed by IBM and initially targeted at IoT applications, has reached version 3.0, bringing a number of improvements to the node editor, new features to control flows at runtime, and more.
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Cloudflare D1 Provides Distributed SQLite for Cloudflare Workers
Soon to enter beta, D1 is Cloudflare's first step into the Cloud-based SQL storage arena. D1 is built on top of SQLite with the addition of a distributed replication mechanism, batch operation support, embedded compute, automatic backups and redundancy, and more.
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Microsoft Previews Enterprise-Grade Edge Functionality to Optimize Azure Static Web Apps
Azure Static Web Apps are a serverless web app hosting service for static web apps, which Microsoft manages. The company now announced a preview of Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-grade edge powered by Azure Front Door, enabling faster page loads, enhanced security, and increased reliability for global apps with no configuration or additional code required.
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Katharine Jarmul on Machine Learning at the Edge
At the recent QCon Plus online conference, Katharine Jarmul gave a talk on federated machine learning titled "Machine Learning at the Edge." She covered several federated ML architectures and use cases, discussed pros and cons of federated ML, and presented tips on how to decide whether federated ML is a good solution for a given problem.