Cloud Before the Horse

Rethinking our relationship with the cloud

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Promptable

Novel Problems

Big Budgets

Data at Scale

Data Ownership

Data Constraints

Benefits

Constrained Access

“At least a third to half of the internet’s users live in part of the world where internet is not an unlimited asset, these are resources that are quite constrained, they are metered and they cost a lot in one way or another to be constantly cloud connected and constantly sending all of the data back and forth.”

Constrained Access

“At least a third to half of the internet’s users live in part of the world where internet is not an unlimited asset, these are resources that are quite constrained, they are metered and they cost a lot in one way or another to be constantly cloud connected and constantly sending all of the data back and forth.”

Spectrum

https://offlinefirst.org

Spectrum

https://offlinefirst.org

Spectrum

https://offlinefirst.org

Spectrum

VALUE

EFFORT

USER_ID: TIMESTAMP

RUN QUERY

LOCAL STORAGE

HTML First

Going All In

Accidental Complexity

I would say, first and foremost, a tremendous amount of current complexity in modern front-ends are directly related mitigating the drawbacks of the cloud-centric model. Most of it is a result of having all our logic live out there somewhere else in the world, but wanting to offset the negative user-experience that comes with that. It is chosen complexity.

Accidental Complexity

I would say, first and foremost, a tremendous amount of current complexity in modern front-ends are directly related mitigating the drawbacks of the cloud-centric model. Most of it is a result of having all our logic live out there somewhere else in the world, but wanting to offset the negative user-experience that comes with that. It is chosen complexity.

Accidental Complexity

I would say, first and foremost, a tremendous amount of current complexity in modern front-ends are directly related mitigating the drawbacks of the cloud-centric model. Most of it is a result of having all our logic live out there somewhere else in the world, but wanting to offset the negative user-experience that comes with that. It is chosen complexity.

Accidental Complexity

I would say, first and foremost, a tremendous amount of current complexity in modern front-ends are directly related mitigating the drawbacks of the cloud-centric model. Most of it is a result of having all our logic live out there somewhere else in the world, but wanting to offset the negative user-experience that comes with that. It is chosen complexity.

Turbulance Test

https://github.com/schalkventer/basic-recipe-app.git

http://github.com/schalkventer/project-management-demo-app