Re:Why The Future Of Software And Apps Is Serverless
by ilaksh on Monday October 15, 2012 @03:10PM
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The main point I think is that services with web APIs are taking the place of individually managed servers. Which is a good point and a trend because it does make sense a lot of the time.
From the title I thought he was going to go farther towards the peer-based content-centric ideas, where the network nodes being addressed are actually data nodes rather than server nodes, and the data is distributed by peers.
Many dismiss that type of peer-based networking as something that will 'never' work for the mainstream internet, but I think you just need sophisticated encryption (bitcoin level) and good upstream bandwidth.
From the title I thought he was going to go farther towards the peer-based content-centric ideas, where the network nodes being addressed are actually data nodes rather than server nodes, and the data is distributed by peers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-centric_networking
Many dismiss that type of peer-based networking as something that will 'never' work for the mainstream internet, but I think you just need sophisticated encryption (bitcoin level) and good upstream bandwidth.