Edge Computing and Continuous Intelligence with Swim

10/26/21 • 34 min

Building the Backend: Data Solutions that Power Leading Organizations

In this episode of Building The Backend we hear from Simon Crosby – CTO @ Swim an open source edge computing operating system, where we talk all about edge computing, event streaming and much more.

Below are top 3 value bombs:

Edge means more than just being physically located somewhere it could also mean in the cloud. It really is the closest point of where your source data is being generated.
Continuous intelligence is a design pattern where streaming data is directly tied into business operations.
Kafka is continuing to hold it’s strong position in the event streaming space.

In this episode of Building The Backend we hear from Simon Crosby – CTO @ Swim an open source edge computing operating system, where we talk all about edge computing, event streaming and much more.

Below are top 3 value bombs:

Edge means more than just being physically located somewhere it could also mean in the cloud. It really is the closest point of where your source data is being generated.
Continuous intelligence is a design pattern where streaming data is directly tied into business operations.
Kafka is continuing to hold it’s strong position in the event streaming space.

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