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IMHO "cloud" as a whole was way overhyped for the value it provided. While it delivered on simple requirements any thing complex meant things got out of hand qu

IMHO "cloud" as a whole was way overhyped for the value it provided. While it delivered on simple requirements any thing complex meant things got out of hand quickly. Quite a lot of applications were sold as "to be used by business user" but then setup ensured the complexity was so high that it required whole dedicated technical teams to manage it. That said, is it the end? It is doubtful - A lot of conventional, old school companies which were against moving to cloud because of various reasons are now seriously considering cloud. Quite a lot of these companies are heavily dependent on Oracle, SAP etc which is just now rolling out/pushing their cloud products. Maybe it is the shoe shine boy and Joe Kennedy moment, but it is difficult to tell.

simonh 9y ago
I don't think it's difficult to tell at all. Real businesses have built massive systems on cloud infrastructure and the pace of them doing so is accelerating. Real money is being made all round, so there's no bubble. It's not all predicated on possible future profits that won't ever materialize. Are there too many startups that won't go anywhere? maybe, but that's not going to lead to the collapse of AWS or Azure. Meanwhile the solutions this article is promoting don't even really exist yet except in very limited, primitive forms. Nobody is going to build a Facebook on bit torrent and the blockchain any time soon.
- pdimitar 9y ago
  > Nobody is going to build a Facebook on bit torrent and the blockchain any time soon. This might be a nitpick but I don't think you realize that most p2p advocates despise Facebook and all centralized mastodonts. The idea the author expresses revolves around a worldwide volunteer-based peer-to-peer CDN than anything else.