Digital Transformation: From the Edge to the Cloud

techUK panel on what 'real-time' actually demands from connectivity, CDNs and network edge — and where the marketing diverges from engineering reality. For most workloads, 'edge' means 'closer than your origin', not 'sub-millisecond from the user'; the architectures that work in production are about predictable failure modes, not raw latency. Spent time on where edge compute is genuinely additive — interactive AI inference, fraud scoring, latency-sensitive personalisation — versus where it's solving a problem nobody actually has.