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This is sort of a plot point in Silicon Valley where the Pied Piper team is trying figure out where to physically store files they keep as a remote backup/sync

This is sort of a plot point in Silicon Valley where the Pied Piper team is trying figure out where to physically store files they keep as a remote backup/sync service for a mobile app and end up going with a fully-distributed peer-to-peer solution that uses no servers at all and just stores file shards directly on the phones of all of their users, like the CERN shared CPU time project but for disk space.

Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
Thanks, I haven't watched that show. I'll try to watch that episode or season; don't know how that show is structured. Common network storage access removed most of the headache with distributed computing in my explorations on that subject(OP is using common network share to execute programs as well).
- anaganisk 6y ago
  It goes like this, one of the programmers of the app, hack a smart fridge to irritate their roommate. Then one fine day, just during their biggest demo to an insurance data company, their garage looses power where their servers are located, they hastily build a mobile data centre on a truck. They try to transport it over to their friends lab at a college. Upon reaching there, they notice they forgot to lock the door, and find that their entire equipment got scattered all over the road. Cue some emotional scenes they get a call from insurance guy saying them the app perfomed perfectly well. Shockingly to these people they realise when one of the programmer hacked the smart fridge he accidentally linked their software to the smart fridge and the smart fridge via its network uploaded the "malware", there by the entire content into its network of all smart fridges there is on earth. Thats when they realise the power of distribution and they go P2P. Silicon valley season 2 last episode and season 3 first episode, should do, to get this.
  - Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
    Thank you!

Abishek_Muthian 6y ago

Thanks, I haven't watched that show. I'll try to watch that episode or season; don't know how that show is structured. Common network storage access removed most of the headache with distributed computing in my explorations on that subject(OP is using common network share to execute programs as well).

anaganisk 6y ago
It goes like this, one of the programmers of the app, hack a smart fridge to irritate their roommate. Then one fine day, just during their biggest demo to an insurance data company, their garage looses power where their servers are located, they hastily build a mobile data centre on a truck. They try to transport it over to their friends lab at a college. Upon reaching there, they notice they forgot to lock the door, and find that their entire equipment got scattered all over the road. Cue some emotional scenes they get a call from insurance guy saying them the app perfomed perfectly well. Shockingly to these people they realise when one of the programmer hacked the smart fridge he accidentally linked their software to the smart fridge and the smart fridge via its network uploaded the "malware", there by the entire content into its network of all smart fridges there is on earth. Thats when they realise the power of distribution and they go P2P. Silicon valley season 2 last episode and season 3 first episode, should do, to get this.
- Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
  Thank you!