Strategic Thinking (was: Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components)

[Cy Schubert]

In message <alpine.BSF.2.20.1901061929510.48074 at puchar.net>, Wojciech 
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> > At $JOB my customers are migrating from AIX, Solaris and even Windows
> > to Linux and from traditional Linux to microservices run under
> why this "microservices" - which are simply complete programs without 
> dependencies (or should be) - cannot be run simply as processes on 
> different user accounts?

Because each is a jail, not a full blown jail like but a lite-jail.

Think of it this way. When I first got into this business everything 
was run on a huge machine, a mainframe. Later applications were moved 
from the mainframe to individual machines, databases to database 
servers, applications to application servers, front end processes to 
web or proxy servers. Now these services are run on microservices.

You are suggesting we go back to the 1960's and 1970's mainframe model. 
As much as you and I want mainframes back, those days are gone.


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