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ICP Information Dump

To start my credibility is I work as a Development Operations monkey for a startup that they tell us is worth a few billion dollars. If you don't know what DevOps is we basically help most programmers in the company hook up their applications to one another and to the public internet and stuff like that. The job is a pain in the ass and in short ICP practically renders my job meaningless, because ICP itself handles so much of the work itself. In addition this post won't be comparing ICP to other cryptos, because the competition to ICP isn't just a token, it's the entire cloud ecosystem, meaning Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, etc. I will be weighing the two in this post.

DNS Routing
- Currently, if you want to have an application hosted online, you need to pay for a DNS address and then point that address at your application. (mysite.com -> IP). It may sound simple enough but once the application becomes sufficiently complex, you need to manage many of these, some are records within records (example.mysite.com), some are databases. Sometimes the range isn't enough so you need to move everything to a new range.

- With ICP you can literally just reference the canister ID and make calls to it. Every canister has a default address, and they have a system similar to DNS which will allow for easier to read sites with much less hassle in the setup