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In brief
Edge computing is a placement decision. Put the loop that cannot wait next to the machine, and keep the control plane somewhere you can patch.
Original CloudExchangers explainer. It describes established public practice and labels the desk’s judgment as analysis. It is not a report of a newly announced event.
Distance is a budget
A round trip to a region has a floor set by physics and a practical number set by the path your packets actually take. Some loops can live with that: a report, a training job, a dashboard. Some cannot: a machine that must stop, a camera that must trigger a local action, a site whose link fails on a schedule. Edge computing means running that second loop close to the thing it controls.