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there's a reason it is called the Internet of things, and not the "local network of things". Even if the latter is probably what most customers would prefer.
by thayne 5y ago
there's a reason it is called the Internet of things, and not the "local network of things". Even if the latter is probably what most customers would prefer.
- fulafel 5y agoIn a traditional internet style architecture, your Roomba and phone would both have globally routable addresses and could directly communicate - your local network would provide hosts with internet connectivity.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y agoThere’s also no reason for an internet connected app to crash on load when there is no access to the internet services.
- mro_name 5y agoindeed. A constitutional property of a network is it's volatility. Nodes may fail. Edges may. You may not. Or you may. But then you're delivering no reliabilty but crap. Nice sunshine crap, maybe.
- garbagecoder 5y agoThe internet was originally designed to still work if there was a nuclear strike on a node. Now we can’t even cope with us-west-1 down.