Key Takeaways
Cloud roundtrips sound fine until you’re building something where the response window is 10 milliseconds. At that point, the architecture either works at the edge or it doesn’t work at all — there’s no middle ground to negotiate your way into.
.NET doesn’t get enough credit for how well it actually runs on constrained edge hardware. Cross-platform, lean when you need it to be, solid container story. It’s a legitimate choice for edge deployments, not a compromise.
5G isn’t just a speed upgrade. It’s an architecture unlock. Things that were technically coherent proposals for years are finally shippable because the network stopped being the bottleneck.
Introduction to Edge Computing
