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Yeah. I had a similar idea of a system of distributed serverless computing. Much to the chagrin of certain users who badmouth, it has much more to do with distr
by kefka 10y ago
Yeah. I had a similar idea of a system of distributed serverless computing. Much to the chagrin of certain users who badmouth, it has much more to do with distributing computation on any machine.
My idea was to run a cluster of Erlang nodes, connect them by Tor Hidden Services. Each machine would have 2 HSdirs, one for the unique name for that node, and a shared HSdir that will randomly talk/load balance via a DNS-like mechanism.
The backend storage substrate would be IPFS. A user would write their program and add it to IPFS. My cluster would have /ipfs and /ipns mounted, and could run erlang programs and functions directly from that.
That was my idea thus far. Obviously, choosing Erlang would be rather erudite and exclusive to a small subset of programmers... But its tools of distributed actors and much of the hard stuff done for you just seemed like a shoe-in.