Each machine does its job independently of other machines. It only knows what it’s supposed to do, and it keeps doing that. It knows which machine it needs to talk to when it needs something. But it can only try and retry and hope for a reply. It might eventually get a response. They are all part of the grander scheme of human design that they will never realize.
Of course, it could fail for any reason. It can recover itself sometimes, sometimes it needs divine human intervention, and sometimes it just gets replaced by another machine. After all, it’s made of commodity hardware.
Every machine is different. They come in different sizes and shapes. Some can compute really well, and some have excellent memory. Some have very specialized hardware like GPUs. But they can only be as valuable as the software that runs on them.
Some run Google algorithms, and some host simple web site like this. Life is not fair to them, either 🙂
Maybe a cloud is just a collection of raindrops, just like the virtual cloud is a collection of computers. The magic happens when it all gathers together.
Nice post. The meme is spot on 😉
Haha! Love it!