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What's next? Picoservices? (medium.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I didn't see this coming and I think it's funny, so I decided to post it here.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I’m trying to understand how this is different than a concept I learned in computer science in the late 80s/early 90s called RPCs (remote procedure calls). My senior project in college used these. Yes I’m old and this was 35 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Microservice architectures are ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow, implementations of Erlang, implemented by people who think that "actor model" has something to do with Hollywood.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Ok this made me chuckle out loud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's basically the same concept, just implemented with a k8s cluster so you have scale-to-zero capabilities I guess