Accelerating Development at the Edge with Platform Engineering

Deploying software to the edge presents unique challenges due to a diverse array of configurations, devices, network conditions, and environmental factors. Whether it's deploying nodes in telecom sites, IoT devices in remote locations, or edge servers in factories, ensuring the reliability and security of these deployments is paramount. These unique aspects of edge computing highlight the need for a robust and thorough platform engineering approach to ensure the ongoing interoperability of an edge deployment’s disparate components.

In this session, we will summarize the role that edge validation and CI/CD toolchains play to ensure compatibility and maintain consistency across distributed edge infrastructures to address challenges such as limited bandwidth, intermittent connectivity, varying compute capabilities and stringent security requirements and discuss emerging practices, trends and technologies.