Would you like to ride a carriage pulled by 10K chickens or single horse? The answer is not easy. It is technically cool to distribute a job over many compute units and when done successfully it replaces the workload on a more hospitable economic curve (cheaper, faster, better..). However, not all jobs can be distributed and a complicated system which does distribute it over cheap compute units ends up being so complicated that focus shifts from the job to managing this system.
We just spent over 6 mos trying to distribute a webApp and came to the conclusion that it is not about the app but about the data. We need to distribute the data and have compute thread scheduled on the data. But wasn't that the whole point of OOP?
Anyways, the search for distribution introduced me to blockchain. Here is a distributed network that kind of mimics human networks. It keeps people honest and has potential. stay tuned...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
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