All this centralization has created all these problems. We need to federate our systems, perhaps at the app level even. I worked at OpenTable for a short and th

All this centralization has created all these problems. We need to federate our systems, perhaps at the app level even. I worked at OpenTable for a short and their arch was interesting. Each PoP in the old version is its own system that pushes data central. Tho they’re replacing it with a new generation of centralization presumably due to eng maintenence concerns. Similar with their regional frontends, seems they’re being consolidated. I am coming to think nested intranets and special purpose vpns might be a good approach to global commerce and expression. I love building massive scale no touch systems, but they’re never that perfect once they start being used. Eg. Usually you end up with more severe and harder to solve issues with one massive db vs. smaller systems with derived data and links. And on the FE a lot of hard problems go away, beyond i18n etc also cyber bullying etc become tractable.