Lightning Talk: The Adaptive Edge: Balancing Cost Efficiency, Usability, and Perfo... Tom McCollough
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2022-05-19

Lightning Talk: The Adaptive Edge: Balancing Cost Efficiency, Usability, and Performance Tradeoffs - Tom McCollough, Section

The network edge presents new challenges in optimizing application deployments, as the deeper an application is pushed into the Internet, the greater the associated costs to run those workloads. This talk will cover a set of optimization considerations and strategies that allow workloads to be as close to users as possible, bounded by a business value construct. At the same time, we will discuss the importance of maintaining simplicity in the usability of the system, so that developers can specify how deeply they want their application to run without overallocation of resources. Using CNCF core technologies, including Kubernetes and Prometheus as a base, this talk establishes a framework for evaluating projects within the CNCF landscape and their suitability for edge use cases. We will examine Kubernetes Federation techniques, Multi-cluster orchestrator systems, and Traffic Direction and Service Discovery strategies against a selection criteria to assist architects in making “good-fit” decisions.