If you look back at the history of computing, you’ll notice a cycle where computing becomes more centralized, then it becomes more distributed, then back to centralized again, and so on.
Over the past 10 to 15 years, the centralized model, in the form of cloud computing, was the dominant trend. But now the trend seems to be swinging back toward a distributed model again as edge computing becomes more prevalent.
In edge computing, data processing happens at the edge of the network rather than in a centralized hub.