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I find it interesting that the assumption is that the cloud needs to be pushed out to the edges, as opposed to making the endpoints smarter and able to speak di
by qution 11y ago
I find it interesting that the assumption is that the cloud needs to be pushed out to the edges, as opposed to making the endpoints smarter and able to speak directly to each other. To me this looks like a large factor in favour of (for example) dedicated mobile apps with their own caching logic and background processing over a one-size-fits-all HTML browser approach.
- lerouxb 11y ago^THIS The difference in user experience between HTML apps that don't even _try_ to cache anything locally vs mobile apps that sync in the background and cache things locally is night and day and it just gets bigger and bigger as your bandwidth quality gets worse. This is the biggest reason why I'm concerned for the future of the open web.
- kaboro 11y agoThere's a reason Amazon/Google and the other major providers tend to push their availability zones to the edge. It's because this matters. You can't always cache in the background especially for multimedia content. It's simply too heavy. Not all content providers will be able to run the infrastructure that Google does, which is why it makes sense for cloud service providers to do the same.