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what if in the distant future they could do away with most of their datacenter with a solution like this (improved of course), imaging the savings... maybe this
by esMazer 11y ago
what if in the distant future they could do away with most of their datacenter with a solution like this (improved of course), imaging the savings... maybe this is their first step into looking into it.
- gaius 11y agoUnless phone storage and bandwith become cheaper than data centres, there is no saving, and even if there were, the cost hasn't vanished, just been hidden.
- icebraining 11y agoThat depends on the type of messages; if one device is sending the data, and the other is receiving it, you could absolutely save bandwidth by implementing a P2P system instead of having the data center as the middle man. An example would be the rider seeing the position of the car they have hailed - P2P would save DC bandwidth without having the devices spend more.
- gaius 11y agoThere's overhead to P2P; if there wasn't we'd never have had servers, the desktops on the LAN would have just done it.