• brian@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    I have never heard the phrase “runs on the edge”, and the article uses some form of it a half dozen times.

    My only results for “edge devices” refer to networking. Is that what they’re trying to say?

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      2 days ago

      It’s usually an IoT (Internet of Things) term that signifies that something runs on the end device. These are hardware constrained devices that would otherwise just send their data somewhere else to be processed, but in this case they’re doing the processing. In this context: Print failure detection is usually done by streaming video from your camera (say a Raspberry Pi with a camera) to some companies’ server, but in this case it would be your Raspberry Pi that’s both a camera and the processor whose output is “print failed” or “print good”.

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      Yes. Kind of implying you’d be able to run it on a reverse proxy without undue security considerations.