Don’t push me ‘cos I’m close to the edge. And the edge is safer if you can take a step back

Opinion  Edge is terribly trendy. Move cloudy workloads as close to the user as possible, the thinking goes, and latency goes down, as do core network and data center pressures. It’s true  – until the routing sleight-of-hand breaks that diverts user requests from the site they think they’re getting to the copies in the edge server. …