Summary

You should now appreciate the various key challenges you will face in building and deploying your Edge solution to production. We have summarized the issues of software design, placement and life cycle management, scale, autonomous operations, security, data privacy, AI, connectivity, and organizational responsibilities that are particular to Edge computing.

While we have used this chapter to lay the groundwork for what Edge computing is and the challenges you will face in your Edge deployment, the rest of this book will focus on teaching the best practices for how to build successful Edge computing projects. We will address the practicalities and organizational considerations for building Edge-native solutions to real business problems. We will also leverage the most accepted best practices of cloud-native development and show you how to adapt them to the unique issues of Edge computing.

This book is going to prepare you to be an Edge ninja.

Next, we will build on...