Client: When can you tell me what you think of the software? Me: When do you need the evaluation? Client: Tomorrow. Me: Tomorrow? Client: Yes, we’re meeting with our clients tomorrow. -sigh- Me: Well, what’s the potential user load for the software Client: Half a million customers -pause- Me: At once? Client: Yes. What do […]
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Technology to enable community
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Serendipity is such a major component of my life, never more so than when I read Gary’s attempt to manually connect the multiple threads to the whole discussion about Identity. While I’m on my long journey through distance and time, I’m working on a new application that will provide a means to […]
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P2P Discovery
What kind of core do Kazaa and its supernodes have? Is it iron? Gold? Or is it more of an aluminum core because the cloud that supports the Kazaa P2P network is still malleable — the Supernodes that provide the cloud services are fluid and can change as well as go offline with little or no impact […]
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Iron Clouds
A true P2P cloud does not have a core of iron. By this I mean that there can be no static IP or server providing the gateway or facilitating the communication between nodes within a distributed application. You can argue this one with me for years and you won’t convince me otherwise. I know that […]
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P2P Services
The Don Box discussion about HTTP was a good read with valid points. From a P2P, not a web services perspective, we need to guarantee certain capabilities in P2P services that we take for granted in more traditional client/server environments. This includes the following: Transaction reliability — the old two-phase commit of database technology appears again, […]