Recloud - a white paper on redoing the cloud

How about reversing the servers?

Since 2020, after falling in love with Onenote, I started using more and more productivity and journaling software in my day to day life. Eventually, I started thinking about ideas and building some tools whenever I faced any problems. Whenever I embark on building some tool, I was always thinking about the ways in which we can serve applications close to the user, as close as from a home server.

I attempted to read and build using existing solutions such as the Solid Protocol and Urbit OS. However, these solutions only address a portion of the problem and are not very developer-friendly. Furthermore, they are still in very early stages of development.

After reading Solid protocol, I developed a pretty good understanding on ways in which we can achieve this. Lately, I started using a lot of serverless functions, AWS CDK for the projects that I am working on. One fine day, coming across Pulumi project, the combination of Infra as Code + serverless + edge computing struck in my mind as a solution to address this problem. I started to think about reversing the way we use servers. Instead of having centralized cloud infrastructure, what if we had a decentralized network of servers that were closer to the end user? This would reduce latency and increase speed, while also giving the user more control over their data.

To accomplish this, I propose creating a network of small, low-cost, energy-efficient servers that can be placed in homes, small businesses, local communities etc. These servers would be connected to the internet and would communicate with each other to provide services to end users. Developers would write application code along with writing infrastructure like APIs and databases as code. Apps can then be deployed on user’s personal cloud running super close to them.

Read full white paper here:

Recloud

P.S: written with help of Notion AI