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I don't think in the 80's anyone, even a luminary like Lamport really had any idea how distributed systems would evolve. Also he was talking about something dif
by hnriot 14y ago
I don't think in the 80's anyone, even a luminary like Lamport really had any idea how distributed systems would evolve. Also he was talking about something different. I very much know there are computers in Google's datacenter that run my apps, and when they go down my computer is not rendered unusable, but rather the service executed by those apps are no longer accessible. Lamport was talking about distributed systems where multiple computers are working together to achieve a common goal. A cloud system is more like a mainframe, or client/server system. Lamport did some fabulous work (at SRI if memory serves) on distributed system.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoI will give you an example of Leslie's quote in action. At my house we forward DNS requests to a machine hosted by our ISP. (Well we used to, but let me finish) My wife came up to me and said "the TV is broken." The TV was trying to load its NetFlix application which was trying to resolve a netflix URL which was going through our Internet setup, which went to the ISP's two DNS servers, both of which were offline because the switch they were connected to had failed. Now how to explain to your spouse that the TV is broken because ns-18.sbcglobal.net is not working.
- nicholassmith 14y agoI had to explain to my girlfriend today why our Apple TV would play Netflix but the Internet on laptop failed, BTs DNS pooped and the Apple TV was on a custom DNS provider. She settled with "isn't the Internet weird". Which it is, it's really weird.