Edge-native best practices as an outgrowth of cloud native

Cloud-native development best practices were initially formed from the convergence of adoption of the agile development process, learning how to effectively utilize shared infrastructure, and service-oriented architecture (as well as software eating the world). However, not all best practices from the cloud apply to the edge. Specifically, partially and completely disconnected operations, heterogeneous hardware and software environments, and the potential mobility of edge devices forced edge pioneers to take a hard look at what was learned, discard the lessons that no longer applied, and adopt new lessons, culminating in edge-native development best practices.

In Chapter 1, we discussed the edge-native programming model, in the Cloud out versus edge in section. In this section, we’ll dive into three areas where those fundamental assumptions affect how we architect solutions. We’ll discuss how an inversion-of...