Back to the Future
There is a revolution, approximately equal in value to the appearance of the PC.
Thanks to Web 2.0, the idea of mainframes is back in the new reincarnation. In the distant past, data processing did not occur at the user terminal (not at the PC), but at the central machine. And now we come back to this idea - only now the data are processed not on the “central machine” in the singular, but on the “central machines” in the plural. The similarity becomes quite obvious in the light of recent events. Google has set quotas for machine resources (CPU time, disk quotes) of its cluster (for Google App Engine applications) and will soon announce prices for exceeding quotas.
“Just like the good old ones?” No, not really ... "(C) Agent Smith.
And what awaits us further, you ask? And I will answer you ...
After some time, local storage systems will lose their meaning, as network applications do not need your local drives.
I would also venture to suggest that the next format of DVD-like discs will be the last (if it ever comes out at all). As it is easier and cheaper for everyone to download legal high-definition movies from the web.
A gradual migration to the network of all local applications, we are already seeing. A little later, the sacred war on Linux vs Windows will lose a special meaning even for ordinary users, since sites will look the same everywhere and the type of operating system will stop worrying anyone much (similar to AMD vs Intel).
And finally, after some time, people will realize that they do not need a powerful processor at home, nor a large memory, nor an advanced 3D video card. Since all their functions by that time will no longer be claimed locally and migrate to distributed networks of application servers. When a cheap fiber optic is thrown to each house, downloading a raster (or vector) image rendered on servers to a non-intelligent display will be easier than maintaining a fifty-layer, historically formed and marasmatic stack of markup and scripting languages on the client.
Whoever invests in these and other conceptually close technologies right now will be richer in the future than Google. :)
Thanks to Web 2.0, the idea of mainframes is back in the new reincarnation. In the distant past, data processing did not occur at the user terminal (not at the PC), but at the central machine. And now we come back to this idea - only now the data are processed not on the “central machine” in the singular, but on the “central machines” in the plural. The similarity becomes quite obvious in the light of recent events. Google has set quotas for machine resources (CPU time, disk quotes) of its cluster (for Google App Engine applications) and will soon announce prices for exceeding quotas.
“Just like the good old ones?” No, not really ... "(C) Agent Smith.
And what awaits us further, you ask? And I will answer you ...
After some time, local storage systems will lose their meaning, as network applications do not need your local drives.
I would also venture to suggest that the next format of DVD-like discs will be the last (if it ever comes out at all). As it is easier and cheaper for everyone to download legal high-definition movies from the web.
A gradual migration to the network of all local applications, we are already seeing. A little later, the sacred war on Linux vs Windows will lose a special meaning even for ordinary users, since sites will look the same everywhere and the type of operating system will stop worrying anyone much (similar to AMD vs Intel).
And finally, after some time, people will realize that they do not need a powerful processor at home, nor a large memory, nor an advanced 3D video card. Since all their functions by that time will no longer be claimed locally and migrate to distributed networks of application servers. When a cheap fiber optic is thrown to each house, downloading a raster (or vector) image rendered on servers to a non-intelligent display will be easier than maintaining a fifty-layer, historically formed and marasmatic stack of markup and scripting languages on the client.
Whoever invests in these and other conceptually close technologies right now will be richer in the future than Google. :)
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/26459/
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