What does this have to do with the "cloud?" Does it really mean "Internet?" The cloud is about scalable resources that can be elastically leased for short or long periods of time. That's different than the Internet, which is a means of communication...
The cloud is the part of the network you don't have to care about. It started out meaning the Internet. You would draw a local network diagram, then a little cloud, then the remote network. You didn't care about who owned all the links in between, where they were, how many there were etc. People have been thinking about moving things "into the cloud" well before it became a buzzword. Moving storage into the cloud was easy enough, just make a network request to send or retrieve data. You don't have to care where the data is, or even who owns the servers. This is more than "the internet" because it includes servers and storage, not just the network. Moving computation to the cloud has been trickier - Amazon EC2 gives you a lot of flexibility but it's not very "cloudy". Wolfram Alpha or Google Drive spreadsheets might be a better example.
This is great, nice job! I work at Keen IO and we're kind of obsessed with smart device event data. Do you think Spark users would be interested in an API to collect & query all their Spark events? For example we have integrations so that any Stripe or Sendgrid user can collect & query their payment/email events. I could imagine a similar integration for Spark events. We also work with smart devices companies. There could be some really interesting partnership opportunities here. Thanks for sharing your post!
What if I don't want to connect through the Cloud?
That's okay! The Cloud is there to make the Core easier to work with, but if you'd rather do it yourself, that's no problem. The Core lets you do your own socket programming over TCP and UDP.
If you want the simplicity of the Cloud but you want it on your own server, we'll be releasing an open source version of the Cloud designed for quick and easy deployment.
I'm looking for a wifi ingress monitor (ideally it would take a picture rather than be a simple sensor) - any suggestions.
Also, re the spark:
"No need to ever plug the Core into your computer" vs. "Power it over USB"
Edit: scratch that, https://www.spark.io/# has details of a "battery shield" with a LiPo - an idea of the battery life when running the OP's sensor application would be nice though?
are you talking about "ingress" the google game? You are probably talking about physical security but if not, I would love to hear more about what this monitor would do for you to monitor the game
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I recently was told that a product would be hosted on a local cloud.
What they meant was an NFS share.
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Sadly, I'm not just being ironic.
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What if I don't want to connect through the Cloud?
That's okay! The Cloud is there to make the Core easier to work with, but if you'd rather do it yourself, that's no problem. The Core lets you do your own socket programming over TCP and UDP.
If you want the simplicity of the Cloud but you want it on your own server, we'll be releasing an open source version of the Cloud designed for quick and easy deployment.
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Also, re the spark:
"No need to ever plug the Core into your computer" vs. "Power it over USB"
Edit: scratch that, https://www.spark.io/# has details of a "battery shield" with a LiPo - an idea of the battery life when running the OP's sensor application would be nice though?
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