For whatever reason the tech world seems to like using weather metaphors to describe various levels of computing: cloud, fog, and mist being the most common. Visibility seems to be the best way to describe these, and yet somehow
,
it’s still not very clear what the differences are. Then, of course, we have the Internet of Things
(IoT),
which is just that: things. Generic on purpose. Anything and everything can be a thing! What happens when we network those things together? We get IoT. In this blog
,
I’m going to
attempt
to provide some clarity on how the mist, fog, and cloud are intertwined with IoT and how an
edge database
can be used throughout.
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