Netflix seems to be looking at P2P as a potential content delivery mechanism.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/netflix-researching-large-scale-peer-to-peer-technology-for-streaming/ Adam On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Arunkumar Dhananjayan <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > >
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