A reason to run locally is to know what you have and to be able to control everything. My sense is that people waste a lot of time maintaining containers.
> On Jun 9, 2022, at 6:50 AM, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > > The End of Localhost > https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost#heading-the-potential-of-edge-compute > > On the tails of the Get off my lawn! AOL thread, that localhost article > reminded me of Firefox's new tool: > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/ > > I don't yet understand how it works. But assuming it's true, I like the idea > that the translator robot runs on localhost. But it also invokes 2 problems I > currently have: 1) coworkers who won't share their premature/broken works in > progress and 2) the opacity of computation that happens elsewhere. If you > read the Hacker News thread <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669762>, > you see lots of yapping about "developers" and front-end stuff, not > understanding back-end stuff, yaddayadda. And that's fine; gatekeepers are > everywhere. But there are serious "openness" issues with relying on compute > elsewhere. And it's not merely supply chain problems like what version are > they running back there. One data portal my clients want/expect me to use > prevents any traffic in or out, for data privacy reasons. But many of the > workflows we use to knead data call out to online APIs, in my case so that > you "don't have to worry about" what version of whatever lies on the other > side. So, obviously, I have to convert all the outreach to localhost, either > with simulated servers or installing large blocks into the container and > refactoring network calls into local calls. That bloats my container, of > course, slowing the development process. Well-simulated data becomes > important so I can tighten the dev loop on localhost before sending the > bloated container to the portal to test on real data. > > I'm no longer sure where I'm going with this. Sorry. Were I intelligent, I'd > delete my commentary and just send along the links. Maybe SteveS has finally > infected me. 8^D > > -- > ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
