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by nyellin 1907 days ago
Cool stuff. A few months ago I looked into building a CITRIX alternative based on the idea that you would run application frontends in a local secure docker container while running the backend in the cloud. E.g. you could run VSCode locally while actually compiling in a kubernetes cluster. I eventually ruled out the idea for business reasons, but from a technical perspective it's doable and probably useful. At the time I thought the primary advantage would be reduced cloud costs and lower latency.