We’re transitioning from the mobile internet era to the hyper connected world era where digital intersects with every aspects of our lives. In the mobile Internet era, a mobile device connects to the Internet to consume content. In the hyper connect world, every object produces data and needs to communicate with other objects to drive a decision or an action. The real practical notion is well beyond Internet of things but internet of systems where microservices communicate with each other using API(s) ranging from smart phones to smart industrial connected device depending on the use case. We can’t possibly think that in the world where every action may have a reaction that my lead to a transactions, all application communications will still goes through a central cloud entity. To scale to support real-time services, we must mimik the cloud to the extreme edge (on end user devices and smart sensors) and utilize it within a standard API-first microservice driven architecture framework. The time has come to start thinking edge-in vs. cloud out.