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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago? Centralized wins. Decentralized loses.

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For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. Neanderthals came first.

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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago?

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For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. Neanderthals came first.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 30th, 2018

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Comments (). The software that powers todayâ??s

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