> decentralized is something techies obsess about but that has as of yet no business value whatsoever.
I don't really understand that point. If it works, then it has the business value of saving you all running server and maintenance costs. For most larger businesses these costs may be insignificant and easily recovered, but for small businesses with a lot of customers they can make a huge difference. For example, I'm looking into P2P options for implementing a decentralized message forum in a game-like emulator and it would make no sense to even implement this feature with constant running costs for server space.
Now getting the decentralized data management to work reliably out-of-the-box from behind various firewalls and different platforms, that's the big problem. So far, none of the libraries I've seen are very easy to use, some require a difficult installation and configuration or you need to your own STUN server or gateway, which kind of defeats the purpose.
Many service providers, e.g. CloudFlare or AWS, among others, will offer sufficient resources for smaller sites for free, in hopes of capturing larger returns if that company scales. This largely negates the specific benefit (cost for small orgs) that you're referring to.
I don't really understand that point. If it works, then it has the business value of saving you all running server and maintenance costs. For most larger businesses these costs may be insignificant and easily recovered, but for small businesses with a lot of customers they can make a huge difference. For example, I'm looking into P2P options for implementing a decentralized message forum in a game-like emulator and it would make no sense to even implement this feature with constant running costs for server space.
Now getting the decentralized data management to work reliably out-of-the-box from behind various firewalls and different platforms, that's the big problem. So far, none of the libraries I've seen are very easy to use, some require a difficult installation and configuration or you need to your own STUN server or gateway, which kind of defeats the purpose.