My previous series of posts talked about a present problem for anyone deploying on the internet: what do you need to measure when deploying into the cloud and how do you measure cloud performance?
But planning and deployment issues are not restricted to just the immediate-term questions I was tackling there. Anyone in charge of a network has to think about how that network will evolve. The next articles in this series will be about the internet of the future and will suggest ways in which the internet seems likely to develop.
One of the astonishing things about the internet is that it is voluntary. With very little central organization, the internet emerges because it interconnects networks. And because of network effects, interconnecting different networks makes those networks more valuable, particularly when the network merely provides interconnection for intelligent applications at the edges of the network. This nature of the internet is what has allowed it to subsume other communications technologies.
The internet's flaws
But there are clouds on the horizon. People as different as Malcolm Gladwell and Bruce Schneier claiming the basic, open design of the internet is, in fact, its deepest flaw. Schneier even asserts that the only way the internet can be made safe is through government regulation. It is undeniable that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are getting worse, even if they are not getting more sophisticated. So, it is unlikely that pressure to “do something” about security on the internet will let up even if the “something” is possibly harmful to the very thing one is trying to protect.
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