One of our Edge Monsters Community members asked a great question recently: “I am getting ready to start planning a 3–5-year journey/roadmap, looking ahead. Part
Scaling any architecture demands constraints, contracts, and conviction… not just consensus in a deck of slides. The Vibes-and-Slides Trap Architecture can happen by accident. A
When we build platforms, it is tempting to think of them as infrastructure that comes online once and then quietly does its job. In practice,
Edge computing environments are heavily influenced by networking constraints. Drawing from production deployments across multiple industries—including retail, energy, manufacturing, and industrial automation—the Edge Monsters community
When we started Edge Monsters, the concept was simple. We wanted to build a small, curated group of technical architects who are delivering edge computing
In our 2025 predictions post, we attempted to look ahead to the year and contemplate what might happen in edge compute environments. Overall, we did
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 drew thousands of cloud-native practitioners to Atlanta this November. For the Edge Monsters in attendance, the event was less
Contemplating the challenges and realities of hardware at the edge Edge computing is, at its core, a distributed systems problem. Rather than dealing with a
What’s hot at the edge this summer? Do the differentiated heavy lifting About a decade ago, Amazon Web Services popularized the phrase “undifferentiated heavy lifting”
Photo Credit: https://newhopeinternationalministries.wordpress.com/2016/09/19/here-be-dragons/ Stateful Dragons Many edge deployments enjoy the luxury of stateless workloads and ephemeral data; data that might be useful, but is not