Edge ain't your gramp's IoT: design an i...
Abstract: Connecting IoT devices to the Internet is not new but deploying and running real-time edge apps at hyperscale using these devices is. IoT is making the world cyber-physical, making computing ubiquitous, and making cloud-native apps live life on the edge forever unshackled from the confines of a datacenter. Edge Computing evolves Cloud Computing by keeping what's great about the Cloud model (developer friendly APIs and Software-defined everything) yet applying it in the harsh physical and security environment of sensors and ruggedized industrial PCs. In this talk we will cover design and implementation of a novel Edge Computing platform created at ZEDEDA Inc. We will focus on new, special purpose, open source operating environment that has to securely run on billions of ARM and x86 device. Based on Linuxkit, this operating environment completely replaces the need for embedded Linux or any special purpose RTOS systems and instead allows them to run side-by-side. We will give hands on examples of how anyone can start using this operating environment or, perhaps, even port it to the device of their choosing.