Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext...
by mongol on Monday February 17, 2020 @06:12PM
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Yes, yes, yes. There needs to be more emphasis on common protocols. This space is much less vibrant in the, say, past 15 years, than before that. If we exclude cryptocurrency I can not think of any common, groundbreaking protocol introduced since Bittorrent. I am probably missing some, but in the 90s and early 00s protocols were where the exciting stuff happened.
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Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext...
by dcolkitt on Monday February 17, 2020 @07:05PM
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I think one reason this might be the case is because modern cloud-computing makes scaling a single centralized service super easy and straightforward.
In the early 2000s if you wanted to build something "at scale", the only real way forward (besides raising tons of money upfront) was to build a decentralized protocol. Offload most of the compute, bandwidth and storage to the end nodes.
Nowadays, you can just an AWS auto-scaling group behind a load-balancer and a CDN, and you can pretty much handle infinite traffic.