The irony is that, many of these Infrastructure as a Service providers themselves use techniques that have been used in P2P software to scale their distributed software. e.g. Distributed Hash Tables.
arun On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Edwin Chu <[email protected]> wrote: > We are in an era that infrastructure-as-a-service is so cheap that > development cost is quickly over infrastructure cost. With service > like AWS, companies able to build system that can be scaled up to tens > of millions of users without paying infrastructure up-front. They only > pay it when they become bigger. On the other hands, P2P is very costly > in term of development cost. It adds complication to protocol, > topology, clients, availability and new features. Startups need to > change their software very frequent and very quick to stay in > competition. P2P will soon become a maintenance headache for them. > Today, P2P no longer offer any cost-benefits for most of the internet > applications. > > I think P2P is still very useful in certain areas. For example, > provide private communication for dissents in authoritarian states. > > Edwin > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:05 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > Cloud is cool, but only for corporates, it's not economicaly accesible > >> > yet. > >> > > >> > Send from my Samsung Galaxy Note II > >> > >> Oh the irony! Do you know why services like Skype or now Spotify are > >> moving to the cloud? Because mobile phones make lousy super-nodes, what > with > >> battery depletion and all that. And then you are sending your complaint > from > >> a Samsung Galaxy... > >> > > Yeah, batteries and inconsistent connections are a problem for P2P > > networks... If internet is moving to mobile and this ones are not true > P2P > > peers but instead they get the resources directly from a server, then it > > makes sense to remove the P2P platform at all and use a plain-old > > client-server architecture (i.e. "The Cloud"), but it still makes sense > for > > desktop and permanent connections devices, or for one-to-one connections > so > > server only use bandwidth for signaling (WebRTC), or for secure, > untrusted > > connections... > > > > It's true that a mobile phone is a bad P2P router both for battery and > > bandwidth resources. The first one will be difficult to fix, but second > one > > will get an acceptable situation probably in 5 or 10 years. As I told > you, I > > believe P2P will see a renaissance. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > p2p-hackers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers >
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