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by GMoromisato
877 days ago
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The article implies that Cloud is bad in the same way that Mainframe was bad. But I think we need to distinguish between the technology (HTTP-based, public internet services) and the business model (subscription-based SaaS). The latter may be bad in some cases, but the technology is here to stay. No one is going back to proprietary client-server systems. In fact, I think we can learn from the Mainframe. Mainframes had a much more cohesive and unified platform. I wish we could write a unified program (not a decoupled frontend/backend) and have it run on an abstract, scalable substrate (which happens to be implemented on a distributed system). Shameless self-promotion: I wrote about this a while back: Rise of the Hyperplatforms: https://gridwhale.medium.com/rise-of-the-hyperplatforms-d4a1... GridWhale and a Brief History of Computing: https://gridwhale.medium.com/gridwhale-and-a-brief-history-o... |
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