Personal Cloud

like a Personal Server/hosted server, but made up of mesh of functions running in various parts of the cloud. cf serverless

see old (2012-10-22) Udell Personal Cloud Series

2021 thread (which is bushy, hard to find all the strands): JSON, HTTP, ReST, WASM, composition, pipeline, Internet operating system, etc.

• on personal cloud vs personal computer
• on XMPP, matrix.org
• on OAuth vs alternatives (incl crypto)
• maybe WASM means you can run code locally, even on phone?

What problem am I trying to solve?

• compounding composition of indie software components
• for customization/personalization of each person's tools for thought: to clarify, I don't mean a closed monolith with personalization toggles/features, I mean a mashup of composable code-bits
  • situated software, end-user programming
• both open-source and paid (Making a living)
• available to all of a user's devices
• People Don't Want To Run Their Own Servers, but want to get things done from laptops, phones, tablets....

Solution Candidate 1: Personal Cloud

• you have control/responsibility for almost everything
• everything runs in cloud
• you have "central" data store, roughly schema-less
• you run a collection of apps/functions that use that data-store
• many components are code you "load" and control
• other components are remote function-services: you pass a chunk of data, you get a chunk back
• some components are free, open source
• some are paid (pay-once or subscription) but trust you with the code to run
• some are paid-per-use functions

Solution Candidate 2: Own Your Own Data

• all you run/control is a cloud-based data-store plus ReST-engine
• all apps get/give data to that server, whether they run on your phone, laptop, or as a SaaS

Hosts to consider

• Glitch - runs on AWS, but doesn't have automatic access to AWS services
• Replit (which runs on GCP - but I suspect it can't access GCP stores, only the Replit-native options...)
• AWS - consumer-friendly enough?
• GCP - consumer-friendly enough?
• anyone else? Digital Ocean?
  • emacs in the cloud, as platform?
• Scratch?

What Data-Store should this use? Probably a GraphDatabase... and where should it be hosted?

• Neo4j? AuraDB on GCP?
• JanusGraph on GCP with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as the orchestration platform and Bigtable as the storage backend
• Amazon Neptune
• sqlite?
• ah, postgresql!: (2022-08-17) Udell Postgres Everywhere, local-first
• Apr'2024 update: Boris Mann pitches Amazon S3: (2024-04-17) Reed Spatial Canvases: Towards an Integration Domain for HCI

Is there value in pre-building item-types using W3 ontology standards?

• cf schema-less, OSAF Chandler, prototype-based, LinkedData (see Dorian Taylor stuff)

FederatedWiki might have more potential than you'd think: (2022-01-19) FederatedWiki 2022 activities.

Hmm, does the JVM have an important role? Pondering Clojure, etc.

• Neo4j is built in Java

The above is too handy-wavy, need to define/design a couple specific applications as examples...