| Hi Craig! Please feel free to respond to me at your leisure, but are you * sure * we will never enter a post-cloud world? Not to say that there will be no cloud infrastructure, per se, just as mainframes still exist today. On the other hand, I imagine someday we will have "datacenter in your pocket" type devices. The challenge will be who has the data -- obviously Google has already identified this as a key strategic advantage. The challenge will * not * be who has enough resources to compute it. These pocket devices seem natural as a way to place strong AI at your fingertips, Siri-like agents, autonomous robots, etc. The first ones, which we have now, either use a data connection or are optimized to have small data sets, but the need for larger data sets is obvious. Once it becomes the primary limiter, I think it will only be a matter of time before "big data" is decoupled from the cloud and personal computing retakes its dominant position. Some will use laptops, some will use phones, but the effect will be the same. There are also the privacy benefits from managing large datasets on your own device -- solutions are already available for things like how to back up your data, how to sync large sets of common data among a network of untrusted peers, and how to curate that data. |
http://elijah.cs.cmu.edu/
http://elijah.cs.cmu.edu/DOCS/satya-ieeepvc-cloudlets-2009.p...
http://www.akamai.com/cloudlets
Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud but not Kubernetes or GKE. Also, Satya was my PhD advisor.