Over the past decade, advances in cloud computing have driven a centralized approach to system administration and operations, while the growth of mobile computing, SaaS, and the internet of things (IoT) have driven computing toward a distributed architecture. With the rollout of and edge computing technologies, companies are now looking to take advantage of both approaches while boosting performance for their applications.
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