Sandstorm – An open source platform for personal servers
Things like Sandstorm are really important as they allow people options without becoming a full-blown sysadmin. Just look at how many crowd funding ideas are based on 'personal cloud' concepts.<p>However, we also need to work on the fundamental problems to make it easier to build decentralised products in the first place (not everything is a web-app). Namely, how such apps are built, how they store/sync data, and how we deal with identity. The current tools simply aren't designed for the world we're heading towards, so we need to re-evaluate our assumptions. On top of this is the need for business models that don't rely on mass data collection (eg advertising) -- we can't rely on everything being open source but the underlying infrastructure must be.<p>There are many ways forward and the particular approach I'm taking is based on unikernels and creating a modern stack to deal with the above issues directly. There's more info at <a href="http://amirchaudhry.com/brewing-miso-to-serve-nymote/" rel="nofollow">http://amirchaudhry.com/brewing-miso-to-serve-nymote/</a><p>If anyone happens to be at FOSDEM this weekend I'd be happy to chat about these ideas in person.