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CNCF Incubates OpenYurt for Kubernetes at the Edge
OpenYurt, a project incubated by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), extends Kubernetes to edge computing, enhancing performance in locations like IoT sites and branch offices. With a growing community and support from industry leaders, OpenYurt focuses on efficient cluster management while maintaining Kubernetes compatibility, ensuring lower latency and improved reliability.
on Aug 28, 2025 -
How Cloudflare Migrated Quicksilver to Multi-Level Caching While Serving Billions of Requests
The engineering team at Cloudflare recently shared how they transitioned Quicksilver, their internal global key-value store, to a tiered caching architecture. They described their incremental journey from storing everything everywhere to adopting a distributed caching system, improving storage efficiency while preserving consistency guarantees and low-latency reads at the edge.
on Aug 09, 2025 -
State Space Models Can Enable AI in Low-Power Edge Computing
At the the 2025 Embedded Vision Summit, Tony Lewis, chief technology officer at BrainChip, presented research done by his company into state space models (SSMs) and how they can provide LLM capabilities with very low power consumption in limited computing environments, such as those found on dashcams, medical devices, security cameras, and even toys.
on Jul 24, 2025 -
Gemma 3n Available for On-Device Inference Alongside RAG and Function Calling Libraries
Google has announced that Gemma 3n is now available in preview on the new LiteRT Hugging Face community, alongside many previously released models. Gemma 3n is a multimodal small language model that supports text, image, video, and audio inputs. It also supports finetuning, customization through retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and function calling using new AI Edge SDKs.
on May 29, 2025 -
NVIDIA Unveils Jetson Orin Nano Generative AI Supercomputer
NVIDIA has released the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, a compact generative AI supercomputer. The device, which measures small enough to fit in one's hand, provides increased performance for generative AI capabilities.
on Dec 20, 2024 -
SUSE Announces Upgrades to Kubernetes and Edge Management Products
SUSE, a provider of open source software solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher Prime (a Kubernetes management platform), and NeuVector Prime (a Kubernetes container security platform), has unveiled significant upgrades to its cloud-native and Edge portfolio. These enhancements aim to help customers securely deploy and manage business-critical workloads across diverse environments.
on Mar 25, 2024 -
NVIDIA Introduces Metropolis Microservices for Jetson to Run AI Apps at the Edge
NVIDIA has expanded its Nvidia Metropolis Microservices Cloud-based AI solution to run on the NVIDIA Jetson IoT embedded platform, including support for video streaming and AI-based perception.
on Feb 08, 2024 -
AWS Introduces Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore: a Low Latency Datastore for CloudFront Functions
AWS recently announced Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore, a secure global low-latency key-value datastore that allows read access from within CloudFront Functions, enabling advanced customizable logic at the CloudFront edge locations.
on Dec 07, 2023 -
QCon New York 2023: Living on the Edge with Erica Pisani
Erica Pisani, Sr. software engineer at Netlify, presented Living on the Edge at QCon New York 2023. Pisani discussed: edge computing anatomy; communication between users, edge locations and origin servers; various edge computing challenges with corresponding solutions; and introduced the AWS Snowball Edge Device. Pisani spoke to InfoQ to learn more about edge computing.
on Jun 29, 2023 -
QCon New York 2023: Day Three Recap
Day Three of the 9th annual QCon New York conference was held on June 15th, 2023, at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, included keynote addresses by Suhail Patel and Sarah Bird, and presentations from four conference tracks.
on Jun 23, 2023 -
Vercel Announces New Storage and Security Offerings for the Edge
Vercel recently announced a suite of serverless storage offerings for their cloud platform with Vercel KV, Postgres, and Blob, powered by the company’s infrastructure partners, Neon and Upstash. In addition, the company also launched Vercel Secure Compute, Visual Editing, and Spaces.
on May 07, 2023 -
Google Announces Preview of AlloyDB Omni: Run a PostgreSQL-Compatible Database Anywhere
Google recently announced the preview of AlloyDB Omni, a downloadable edition of AlloyDB designed to run on-premises, at the edge, across clouds, or even on developer laptops.
on Apr 04, 2023 -
Living on the Edge: Boosting Your Site's Performance with Edge Computing
Erica Pisani, senior software engineer at Netlify, presented at QCon London on what edge is, how running code and serving data on the edge can improve site performance, and how to leverage these options effectively in a site to maximize site performance with minimal architectural changes.
on Mar 29, 2023 -
Microsoft Brings Kubernetes to the Edge with AKS Edge Essentials
Microsoft recently announced the general availability release of AKS Edge Essentials, a new Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) offering designed to simplify edge computing for developers and IT professionals.
on Mar 18, 2023 -
Amazon Releases Elastic Kubernetes Service for Snowball Edge
Amazon has released Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere on Snow. This release automates the creation and management of EKS clusters on AWS Snowball Edge devices. These devices are able to run with or without an internet connection.
on Feb 20, 2023