Please review my weekend project. 100% client side webapp. Scales infinitely

Re:Please review my weekend project. 100% client side webapp... by Animus7 on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @03:06PM (#2537897)

I don't think it's splitting hairs at all. When you have a centralized point of failure (e.g. datacenter) backend that runs the show, you're not 100% client-side. You're probably not even 10% client-side.

And as Amazon has shown us, you're not infinitely scalable either when a routing misconfiguration wipes your service off the face of the internet.

That said, I wouldn't be so passionate about the topic if I weren't working on a true serverless client-side app framework :).

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Re:Please review my weekend project. 100% client side webapp... by ljlolel on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @03:40PM (#2538053)

Any website could fail because of router misconfiguration, BGP errors (see Youtube), or DNS issues outside of your control.

The point is that it won't fail because of me. I don't have to optimize SQL queries or launch new instances or rewrite my backend in C. It just works, for 1 user or 1 billion.

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Re:Please review my weekend project. 100% client side webapp... by ndbabb on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @04:04PM (#2538173)

You still need to serve a static HTML page, even if most of the body content loads from elsewhere. Serving a small static HTML file certainly scales well, but not infinitely.

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