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It's just an application server. It's a VM, it connects to other VMs, they run programs, sometimes locally, sometimes remotely, sometimes distributed. This is
by Avshalom 10y ago
It's just an application server. It's a VM, it connects to other VMs, they run programs, sometimes locally, sometimes remotely, sometimes distributed.
This is all apparently very novel.
- mahyarm 10y agoSo something like sandstorm with an autoscaler?
- api 10y agoThat's like saying a snowmobile is a horse on skis. This is more like a total re-implementation of computing based on a functional model and a re-implementation of networking based on a feudal/federated shared/distributed/content-addressable model.
- Avshalom 10y agoMeh, it's a new VM and a dumb network topology. I don't know sandstorm so I'm not sure which of these you think is the horse in this analogy.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoAlso, it's been under development for the better part of a decade.
- vertex-four 10y agoThe novel bits are: * Everything on the VM is purely functional, and inputs essentially cause transactions which can fail/succeed - the result being that it's supposedly easier to implement certain types of network protocols, specifically the ones that Ames implements * A somewhat decent revision-controlled filesystem with push/pull/merge, static typing of files, and a built-in build system of sorts And last but not least... * Feudalism built into the core p2p protocol as an explicit design decision