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Internet speed and unreliability make it tricky for webapps to do much good. Distributed web servers that work on local area networks and sync data asynchronous
by zekenie 12y ago
Internet speed and unreliability make it tricky for webapps to do much good. Distributed web servers that work on local area networks and sync data asynchronously with something like AWS could be HUGE. I've been working on a side project that uses this model. Stick a raspberry pi in an office or clinic. Have users hit that server. Page loads instantly. Resin.io & Docker could make it easier to deploy code to these servers. I'd be happy to chat about this or other ideas more. Very important and neglected area!
- ethnomusicolog 12y agoI am thinking about this a lot and I would love to start a discussion ! I am sending you an email.
- sdenton4 12y agoI absolutely agree with this. Having spent time working in Kenya, frameworks for locally hosted apps which refresh their data during rare spates of internet connectivity would be helpful for a wide range of applications.... Along with easy out-of-the-box servers for LANs.
- csytan 12y agoWould this be a hardware cache + proxy that's specific to a particular app?
- prabhasp 12y agoSome interesting work in this area has also been done by Jay Chen: http://cs.nyu.edu/~jchen/ http://cs.nyu.edu/~jchen/