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Over the last few decades, the cloud has expanded the reach of apps beyond single desktops, hub-and-spoke connecting all the myriad devices we carry with us. But users and their data don’t live in the cloud, they live at the edge. It’s time we admit: centralization was just a stopgap. Unfortunately, most developers today are stuck building apps like it’s the hey-day of the monolithic cloud way back in 2012. We know this: the next era of software won’t be written in a cloud console. It’ll be built by wrangling full control of data and compute — at the edge. If you’re serious about building that future — real systems, real software, real resilience — you already know you have to go beyond the cloud.