Today, Sparkster is a platform of empowerment. We empower you to bring your ideas to life by building software without learning how to code. Use intuitive drag and drop interfaces and the ability to define business logic in plain English to build anything imaginable. Focus on WHAT you want to build, and let our platform transform your ideas into working software in seconds. Inspired by MIT Scratch, we take the position that if young children can build games with simple building blocks, then we can empower
everybody to build enterprise grade applications in a similar manner.
Innovation in the 21st Century is almost exclusively dependent on software development. One need not look far for a plethora of examples: emerging companies such as Uber, Airbnb, and Instagram are exclusively software companies. The Sparkster platform aims to democratize access to innovation, and make innovation in the 21st century accessible to everybody.
The Sparkster platform is to software what Uber was to the taxi industry - a seismic disruption. Competitors such as Microsoft®, SAP®, Oracle® will have their business models fundamentally disrupted by the advent of user generated software, empowered by the Sparkster platform. We present the fastest, cheapest, easiest, most democratic and personalized way to build software, period.
Now, we’re building the world’s fastest Decentralized Cloud that enables people to execute this software across a network of our community’s cell phones. This combined packaged is not only the cheapest, most democratic and fastest way to build software, but to run software too. A high performance decentralized cloud, as proposed by Sparkster, is necessary to mainstream blockchain adoption.
With traditional cloud computing, no matter how many nodes are added to the network, the average
cost per operation remains constant, enabling one to scale with near linear costs. However, with a
decentralized network of inexpensive nodes, as more nodes such as cell phones are added to the
network, the cost per operation declines, such that the cost per operation becomes less than traditional
cloud computing.
Companies wishing to run software, will pay for the execution of software on the Sparkster Decentralized Cloud in SPARK tokens. Large companies are likely to adopt a public Decentralized Cloud, like they’ve adopted Amazon® AWS and Microsoft® Azure, if we can satisfy the following requirements:
- Privacy – all data stored and accessed is deconstructed into transaction fragments, encrypted and disseminated across a network of nodes such that it cannot be of any meaningful value when viewed on a public ledger.
- Security – any devices operating on the network and interacting with client data are hardened such that any form of tampering to access data, while it is being processed, prevents the device from accessing the network.
- Performance – transaction latency must be comparable with traditional centralized cloud computing, but transaction throughput must exceed Tens of Millions of Transactions per Second.
- Material Cost Savings – Cost savings must be sufficient to justify the efforts involved in
redesigning software - Architecture Transparent – Software designed in such environment must easily and
automatically operate in a Decentralized environment, without requiring any knowledge or architectural design considerations for Decentralized environments by the software author. - Blockchain Agnostic - Users must have the freedom to build software that can interact with any existing blockchain of their choice – all in plain English. Today, we have existing integrations with Ethereum and IOTA, but others such as NEO, Cardano, and Stellar are on our roadmap.
- True Decentralized Oracles – Integrate anything, whether it’s AI, IOT or your favorite API. Most importantly, integrate anything without any code – in plain English.
The aim of this paper is to describe a purpose built decentralized blockchain design that addresses these seven concerns and presents a legitimate and practical solution, using existing but proven technologies, that collectively will give rise to a trustable, public, Decentralized Cloud facilitating the future of Cloud Computing.