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> What changed in software in the last 20 years Backends handling tens / hundreds of thousands or more of concurrent users rather than locally deployed softwa
by mfuzzey 2y ago
> What changed in software in the last 20 years
Backends handling tens / hundreds of thousands or more of concurrent users rather than locally deployed software on a single machine or a small server with a few 10s of users?
Mobile?
Integration with other software / ecosystems?
Real time colaboration amoung users rather than single user document based models?
Security?
Cryptography?
Constant upgrades over the web rather than shipping CDs once a year?
I'll pass on AI for the moment as it's probably a bit too recent.
- gmueckl 2y agoWhy is a single, scaled up backend required in products effectively have onky multi-tennancy? Software can be distributed onto client machines and be kept up to date. That was first solved with Linux packages managers more than 25 years ago. Before mobile we had a wide range of desktop operating systems with their own warts. TLS 1.0 was introduced in 1999. So cryptography already a concern back then. So what is really new?
- chrz 2y agoCant do all on clients. All the 5m client machines daily are connecting to "my" one authorization server