# Computing pendulum: from mainframes to cloud and back to decentralized architectures

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-11-09
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Serverless Panel: Komal Mangtani, Greg Osuri, Guillermo Rauch, Gwen Shapira (Kong)
- **Watch at:** 00:18:16 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GOaS_SQWuE&t=1096s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2018-11-09-computing-pendulum-from-mainframes-to-cloud-and-ba-wydh/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Computing pendulum: from mainframes to cloud and back to decentralized architectures," Serverless Panel: Komal Mangtani, Greg Osuri, Guillermo Rauch, Gwen Shapira (Kong), 9 Nov 2018, 00:18:16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GOaS_SQWuE&t=1096s

## Quote — verbatim

> If you look at evolution of computing, in the beginning you had mainframes — it was a very centralized model... then the client-server came along and clients were equally as powerful as servers, so you had a way more distributed model. Then went back to the cloud, where cloud became the centralized entity... Now we're seeing more decentralized, distributed architectures... you're gonna see, as we move more into the decentralized distributed cloud, serverless will play a huge role.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Greg's core recurring thesis, stated here in 2018: centralization/decentralization cycles in computing history, with the next swing toward decentralized cloud. Follows his 85%-idle-capacity supply argument.