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by Daniel Bartholomew | January 5, 2024

The Complexities of Replicating the Cloud Developer...

Over the last fifteen years or so, developers have become very familiar with cloud deployment. Whether using AWS, Azure, GCP, Digital Ocean, or a more niche provider, the dev experience...
by Daniel Bartholomew | March 14, 2022

How to De-Risk Cloud Region Selection

When building a cloud application, one of the first decisions to consider is where to deploy it. In fact, Google’s helpful document on Best Practices for Compute Engine Regions Selection states “When...
by Daniel Bartholomew | November 22, 2021

Top Considerations for Containers at the Edge

Some things are just made to go together, like containers and edge computing. Containers package an application such that the software and its dependencies (libraries, binaries, config files, etc.) are isolated...
by Daniel Bartholomew | January 27, 2021

Is Edge as a Service (EaaS) the...

Software as a Service (SaaS) was the largest market segment in the cloud in 2020 and Gartner forecasts it to grow to $117.7 billion by the end of this year. Not far...
by Daniel Bartholomew | December 7, 2020

The Challenges of Distributed Databases at the...

Global Internet traffic in 2021 will be equivalent to 135x the volume of the entire Global Internet in 2005, according to Cisco. Globally, Internet traffic will reach 30 gigabytes per capita...
by Daniel Bartholomew | July 10, 2020

Creating the Mutual Funds of Edge Computing

At Section, we are working to leverage data science and machine learning methods to create the mutual funds of edge computing. In finance, Modern Portfolio Theory revolutionized investment practices by providing an analytical...
by Daniel Bartholomew | July 1, 2020

Securing a Distributed Edge Network

Security for edge computing is ipso facto a large and complicated topic. In our previous post, we looked at challenges specific to security at the edge. In this one, we’ll take a...
by Daniel Bartholomew | April 23, 2020

Comparing OpEx vs. CapEx Models at the...

When Akamai was founded in 1998, co-founders Daniel M. Lewin and Tom Leighton, were not only inventing the first content delivery network (CDN), but also creating an early prototype for edge...
by Daniel Bartholomew | August 14, 2018

Why Game Developers Are Looking to the...

As we look ahead to the future of edge computing, there are many use cases that are driving demand. However, one area that we are especially interested in is online...
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