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Okay. Why doesn’t everyone do that, then? Why use Infura? As is hopefully obvious, I am totally naive here; my questions are genuine. Thanks!
by spenczar5 5y ago
Okay. Why doesn’t everyone do that, then? Why use Infura?
As is hopefully obvious, I am totally naive here; my questions are genuine. Thanks!
- kristofferR 5y agoEconomies of scale basically. It's way simpler to just connect to Wikipedia.org and download the pages you want to read instead of downloading the whole Wikipedia.org database and keeping it stored and updated on your devices. Same principle.
- exdsq 5y agoMostly the cost of hiring a DevOps engineer to set it up and maintain it and taking on the additional risk of having to deal with upgrading the node etc... It's just cheaper and easier to go centralized at the moment.
- jboy55 5y agoThough things are never cheaper to maintain than at the beginning of a tech bloom. Its only going to get more expensive to create and maintain as the node and the APIs get more complex.
- exdsq 5y agoSure but these aren't crazy complicated beasts - a binary installation and some unix experience gets you 90% of the way there! I don't think they'll get far more complex in the next few years at least, and documentation/user support is really good
- jboy55 5y agoIts all the dependencies, security updates and keeping all of them up to date and in check. One word, Log4j.
- unionpivo 5y agosame reason people are moving to aws, and people which used to use aws instances are moving to serverless. Leave infrastructure work for other people.