A lot of companies talk about edge computing today, but at Akamai, we've been doing it for more than 20 years. We were the first company to offer edge computing services, beginning in 1999 with advanced metadata, an XML-based language used to enable a variety of capabilities on our edge platform -- things like access revocation, ad insertion, throttling, and visitor prioritization.   \r\n We followed this with our deployment of Edge Side Includes in 2001, which helped our customers scale, increase performance, and save money by moving fine-grained business logic that would have been done locally to our edge, reducing the amount of data that their infrastructure needed to process in a datacenter.  We then introduced Edge Java in 2002, to help enterprises maximize business efficiencies and scale by enabling web applications to execute on the edge. These early innovations anticipated the prevailing use cases for application-aligned edge computing today.…