The Rise of Edge Computing

This article is contributed by Maaz Humayun. Maaz is a senior engineer at Amazon. He spent five years with Amazon Appstore working on high-volume web services that power search, ordering, and entitlements on first and third-party devices. More recently, he’s joined the Amazon Luna team, where he’s working on game-streaming tech. In his free time, he enjoys reading about SaaS platforms and new trends in software development.

You would be hard-pressed to find an industry the internet has not yet transformed. Banking, health, publishing, entertainment; the list goes on. And we’re all better off for it. Internet-enabled services are faster, cheaper, and more reliable. The only thing that’s outpaced the technological progress of the internet is our expectations of it. So you want that YouTube video to stream in 4k without buffering, no pixelation, and crystal-clear audio quality? Why, yes, I’ll have that, thanks.

The internet has gone through massive changes to keep up with growing demands. A decade ago, companies had to maintain network infrastructure and fund an IT department to keep everything working smoothly. This all changed with cloud computing. Today, all you need is a great idea and an AWS account to create a product/website that’s globally available and infinitely…