[HN Gopher] A Faster Horse: Infrastructure was the cloud's first...
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       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)
        
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       | bitwize wrote:
       | I keep hearing a lot about "edge computing", so here's my guess.
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       | 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.
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       | 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.
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       | 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.
        
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