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P2P vs. the Cloud
- axod 18y agoWhen a buzzword looks like it may fail, add on another buzzword!! Cloud computing = out. P2P cloud computing = in! yey
- Maro 18y agoWell, cloud computing is definitely a buzzword, but it's far from being out - check out some SIGMOD 2008 papers.
- tectonic 18y agoI thought this was a well thought-out article. Thanks for posting it.
- Maro 18y agoIt's a reply to another article that was posted here on HN a few hours ago, that I thought is worth "debunking". Thanks.
- swombat 18y agoSpot on. Also, all those people who feel that Cloud Computing has "failed" just because of some high-profile failures seem to completely miss the point that the promise of cloud computing isn't 100% uptime (though it gets closer to that than most other hosting providers), but easily scalable, cheap infrastructure.
- mooneater 18y agoPeers might not just be clients. P2P between servers or even datacenters might work well.
- Maro 18y agoYes, actually, Facebook uses a P2P architecture, but their peers are running on their own computers in their own datacenter. In this article, when I say peer, I'm referring to nodes running on outside computers.