IDG Contributor Network: Serverless computing: Mapping out the possibilities (Part 2)
Imagine a map of your business. On this map, plot an 'x' for each user, representing a smartphone, tablet, or laptop where the user interface resides. Then plot an 'o' at the data center location for each service people use from their device, whether it's corporate email or Netflix. It won't take long before realizing a third element, a line connecting each 'x' to it's corresponding 'o' is required to keep track of the relationship binding the two. What you end up with is an ordered mess, a highly random distribution of x's connecting via lines so dense they'd block out the sun to concentrated amalgamations of o's. Now ask: How does this model, where every 'x' terminates in an 'o,' enable interaction between two people standing next to each other? How does this model make sense in burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) where a single system, such as an intelligent vehicle, interacts with multiple other systems? And finally ask: Is there enough time to coordinate and move the data if it has to travel halfway across a state, or country, to a common meeting place?
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