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Is everything that doesn't run on the local machine called a "cloud" application these days? The use of the word seems to have gotten out of hand to the point
by pmorici 17y ago
Is everything that doesn't run on the local machine called a "cloud" application these days? The use of the word seems to have gotten out of hand to the point where saying something runs "in the cloud" is just synonymous with the term remote sever.
- manvsmachine 17y agoBeing nitpicky for a second: There is a different between something being "in the cloud" and "on a server", the difference being that if your stuff is just on a remote server, you could go to wherever it is, point to it, and say "that's where my stuff is". With cloud apps, your data / service is always available by the same means, but its physical location / method of distribution may have changed an indefinite number of times without you ever noticing. It's just like shared hosting, where your server state is continuously preserved, even though you're not actually hitting the same box. That, said the term "cloud" is beaten to death, not because it's inaccurate, but because grid / distributed computing is now the norm rather than the exception when dealing with web apps.
- pmorici 17y agoExactly which is why I find it dubious that the term is used so readily when in most cases we have no knowledge of a services underlying implementation. It's like the F-word of computing over used and generally unnecessary.