With the recent introduction of blockchains as an enabling technology for distributed and peer-to-peer systems, it comes as a challenge to check whether modern edge computing approaches are suitable for being coupled with emerging decentralised applications built on blockchains.
As Edge computing is gaining more maturity in the market diverse open source initiatives are emerging in order to provide open source solutions to the challenge of managing applications at the Edge. Here we will look at three of these initiatives: EdgeXFoundry, KubeEdge and StartlingX.