Mid 2000s one computer science professor said that internet capacity is not going to match the amount of traffic. Everybody laughed. The wold was full of dark fiber after dot-com-bust.
But if you look at his math, it was correct. The era of client-server connected heterogeneous distributed Internet is just a side show today.
The solution has been centralization (clarification: big companies run their own caches and networks near users). and growth of caches and then Cloudflare taking care of the rest.
> The solution has been centralization and growth of caches.
Centralization and growth of caches are on their face contradictory.
Perhaps you mean organizational centralization but that really has nothing to do with internet capacity demands. Your hot take isn’t so brilliant. What’s fundamentally wrong with edge distribution?
Yes. This is exactly what I mean. Big companies run their own caches and networks near users. Cloudflare takes care of the rest.
>What’s fundamentally wrong with edge distribution?
You incorrectly assume judgement from my part. My point is that things have changed. New problems arise in solution to old problems. Fragility from small number of organizations running their caches to solve bandwidth problem.
But if you look at his math, it was correct. The era of client-server connected heterogeneous distributed Internet is just a side show today.
The solution has been centralization (clarification: big companies run their own caches and networks near users). and growth of caches and then Cloudflare taking care of the rest.