Developers Beware

As of August 31, 2019, Google killed access to its Works with Nest API, bankrupting a swath of developers in one move¹.

This was not a singular tragedy. In 2018, Twitter did the same thing, turning its back on the people and apps that helped make Twitter usable in the first place. Years before, in 2015, Twitter cut off access to its "firehose" feed of tweets and related data.

Every day in the consumer world, millions of vendors risk losing their livelihood if Amazon (sometimes mistakenly) shutters their shop.

The fundamental truth that's being uncovered here is that if vendor platforms become large enough, they become monopolies - and not necessarily the good kind. Monopolies inevitably act against the interests of the market, driven more by the demands of Wall Street or, sometimes, just an unquenchable thirst for power. Either way, the ecosystem that helped to create the monopoly always suffers. When this happens it's the developers that build on their stack that bear all the risk.

For developers with great ideas for IoT, M2M or mobile apps, building on Google Cloud Functions, MS Azure or AWS Lambda can be tempting. Sooner or later, however, one of these companies could make changes that are catastrophic to your project.

As the old saying goes, if you play with the bull, you just might get the horns.

The vision behind EDJX is a serverless edge computing platform that is not only fast, efficient, and secure, but fully distributed as well.

Inspired by the Maker revolution and the sharing economy, EDJX is "the antithesis of compute singularity. It is a network of compute, comprised of heterogeneous operators; necessary compute capacity, precisely matched to application needs, and existing only when and where it is needed, when it is needed."

Vulnerability to the whims of any other third party has been removed as a risk factor.

Rapidly building out the largest network of near-edge servers ever conceived, EDJX is pioneering a new business model for the edge economy - one where the community is the cloud. But this decentralized thinking doesn't end with the idea of hosting edge servers on your premises. It will also extend to the sensitive territory of API gateways for IoT services.

Akin to the open source experience, once a service is committed to the EDJX protocol, it will take the majority of the community to remove it.

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