[HN Gopher] A Faster Horse: Infrastructure was the cloud's first... ___________________________________________________________________ A Faster Horse: Infrastructure was the cloud's first act. What's its second? Author : CharlesW Score : 18 points Date : 2022-12-09 21:06 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (redmonk.com) (TXT) w3m dump (redmonk.com) | bitwize wrote: | I keep hearing a lot about "edge computing", so here's my guess. | | Back in the 90s, companies would buy rooms full of servers for | their big workloads and the user-facing stuff would run on | people's individual PCs. | | So the next big thing with cloud is, cloud will combine with edge | computing to reverse this relationship: users' PCs will do | analytics on behalf of big companies locally, and all the user | facing stuff will run in big companies' datacenters, i.e., the | cloud. | mkl95 wrote: | > Instead of working on the core of the code and focusing on the | performance of a self-contained application, developers are now | forced to act as some kind of monstrous manual management layer | between hundreds of various APIs, puzzling together whether Flark | 2.3.5 on a T5.enormous instance will work with a Kappa function | that sends data from ElephantStore in the us-polar-north-1 region | to the APIFunctionFactoryTerminal in us-polar-south-2. | | Do they though? While the state of IaC is far from ideal, it | makes most cloud systems relatively easy to reason about. There's | no reason to be puzzling it together. | ghaff wrote: | There was also some discussion of "What's next" at Kubecon as | well and, somewhat to Steve's point, discussion about addressing | complexity for both developers and operations. Layer on top of | that tension between simplification and locking people into a | vendor-specific abstraction. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-09 23:00 UTC)