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The Internet’s Next Chapter in DecentralizationCategory: Kubernetes, apple
Today, as microservices, Kubernetes and distributed environments become more prevalent, the use of the internet is taking decentralized communications to the next level. In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of TNS, Storj Labs’Ben Golub, chairman and interim CEO, and Katherine Johnson, Storj head of compliance, discuss how the internet centers around decentralization — and more importantly — how peer-to-peer communications will continue to evolve.
And, so, that was kind of my first exposure to the internet and the decentralized version of it, which is that you could actually be more secure than having a plane flying around in the air constantly or [containing the infrastructure] in big bunkers, if you took advantage of decentralization.”
If you think about how the internet works as you and I are talking — as people are Zooming as they’re watching cat videos or whatever — all of that information is broken down into packets of large and distinguishable information that gets broken down and gets set across routers run by lots of different people, and you, for the most part, don’t care. I mean I don’t know who’s running the routers that are forwarding the packets that you and I are talking to and I don’t care if half of them fall down because the message just goes to the next one,” said Golub. And that’s really what decentralization is all about: saying ‘hey, can we take that sort of notion that has fueled the internet, which obviously has driven down costs massively and has enabled all of the innovation that we’ve seen, and can we apply it to cloud computing as well and can you do storage in a way that isn’t done in a centralized way or can you compute in a way that isn’t done in a centralized way?’ Because right now, three-quarters of cloud computing is done by one of three companies that happen to be the largest companies on the planet.”
And, so, that was kind of my first exposure to the internet and the decentralized version of it, which is that you could actually be more secure than having a plane flying around in the air constantly or [containing the infrastructure] in big bunkers, if you took advantage of decentralization.”
If you think about how the internet works as you and I are talking — as people are Zooming as they’re watching cat videos or whatever — all of that information is broken down into packets of large and distinguishable information that gets broken down and gets set across routers run by lots of different people, and you, for the most part, don’t care. I mean I don’t know who’s running the routers that are forwarding the packets that you and I are talking to and I don’t care if half of them fall down because the message just goes to the next one,” said Golub. And that’s really what decentralization is all about: saying ‘hey, can we take that sort of notion that has fueled the internet, which obviously has driven down costs massively and has enabled all of the innovation that we’ve seen, and can we apply it to cloud computing as well and can you do storage in a way that isn’t done in a centralized way or can you compute in a way that isn’t done in a centralized way?’ Because right now, three-quarters of cloud computing is done by one of three companies that happen to be the largest companies on the planet.”
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