Tim Bray was always an architecture astronaut, but this example of cloud services for a toy shopping cart app points to an overengineering pathology in our industry. Complexity bloat is real and it has made the cloud fairly noxious. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/08/09/Service-Fabric-News …
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This stuff infects everything. I upgraded a server OS yesterday and my ethernet port renamed itself from "eth0" to "enp1s0f0", just in case I happen to add three datacenters to the backplane.
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Which, to be fair, will happen if my bid for Pinterest is accepted.
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Since a lot of the unnecessary complexity is introduced by fearsomely smart people at Google and Amazon, there's a stigma against calling it out. Maybe I'm just too dim to understand a 'services mesh'. But we saw this movie before, with SOAP and the "Semantic Web" and RDF and...
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u know how they make new cooks peel a million potatoes??? in "the cloud" u never stop peeling potatoes !!!!
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You say "barrier to entry" as if it's not an implicit objective.
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