It's no secret that more and more computing workloads are moving to the cloud, and will continue to move to the cloud in the years ahead. In 2018, 10% of companies have shut down their traditional data centers in favor of the cloud. By 2025, that number will be 80%, according Gartner. But this centralization of data, computing power, and intelligence has its drawbacks, and there are important and cutting edge scenarios where sending every transaction to the cloud is too inefficient and not fault tolerant enough. That's where edge computing comes in.