Part 3: Related Considerations and Concluding Thoughts

The final six chapters in the book apply what was described in Part 1 and formalized in Part 2. These chapters give guidance on when and why to use an approach and when to avoid it. The experience condensed here will give architects the ability to innovate and safely modify the archetypes to fit their specific requirements. The chapters survey many different topics and consider how they apply to edge computing architectures, but these should be taken only as an initial overview, and a springboard to more in-depth research and thinking by the reader, not a comprehensive introduction to the topics.

This part has the following chapters:

• Chapter 6, Data Has Weight and Inertia
• Chapter 7, Automate to Achieve Scale
• Chapter 8, Monitoring and Observability
• Chapter 9, Connect Judiciously but Thoughtlessly
• Chapter 10, Open Source Software Can Benefit You
• Chapter 11, Recommendations and Best Practices

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