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The author includes an incorrect diagram swapping around the definitions of distributed vs decentralised, then ignores that one of the design criteria of the in
by infinity0 8y ago
The author includes an incorrect diagram swapping around the definitions of distributed vs decentralised, then ignores that one of the design criteria of the internet was to survive against nuclear attack.
Google's 40 centralised global datacenters wouldn't stand up very well to that sort of thing. Centralisation only works when nobody stronger is around to compete with.
- j2kun 8y agoYou don't think Google could survive losing a single data center? Cloud users might lose some data, sure, and it'd likely cause issues, but I bet search wouldn't go down.
- microcolonel 8y agoWell, for one, many of their services (especially Hangouts) would become either impractical or illegal (w.r.t. data handling law) for a considerable number of people to use.
- infinity0 8y agoYou think the world only has 1 nuke? Also it looks like 40 was an overestimate by me, the real number is 15: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/index.html https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/in...