Sam Harris often makes an argument that I both hate and kind of agree with. He says that exchanging arguments and having a debate only works when the two arguing parties share a foundation. The debate’s purpose is to reconcile a measurable difference of opinion.
In this case, I feel there’s no shared foundation. Half of the commenters here don’t seem to understand what money is or how it works. There's no soil in which to plant an argument, because there's no understanding of what a billion dollars represents. There’s no genuine desire to understand the counterparty either.
IMO using what we have intelligently is easier. Uniquiti hardware has the Edge line of routers and switches that are not cloud-controlled, not listen on any ports, and not establish any connections on your behalf.
Microservice has no new meaning (although a few content marketing teams may disagree). It's just a process with an input and output. Building applications consisting of multiple processes has been possible since forever. I would even argue that piping multiple UNIX commands together is a valid example of microservices :)
I wanted to make a similar point with piping UNIX commands. I can think of two reasons why the degradation happened:
1. Expansion of the software universe. Back in VB6 times, there were fewer programmers but many languages. Reusing components made with different languages was a big deal (VB used COM/ActiveX machinery to make this possible), but today there are so many more developers, that each language/ecosystem is big enough to exist on an island and happily not interact with anything unless it's a grpc/rest endpoint.
2. Transition to SaaS. We no longer use the same platform for building and running. Your VB app used to run on more or less the same computer it was built on. SaaS applications run in weird, custom-made, hard to reproduce and fragile computers called "environments". They are composed from all kinds of complex bits and this makes SaaS applications less portable. Frankly, they feel more like "environment configuration" than "code" sometimes.
In this case, I feel there’s no shared foundation. Half of the commenters here don’t seem to understand what money is or how it works. There's no soil in which to plant an argument, because there's no understanding of what a billion dollars represents. There’s no genuine desire to understand the counterparty either.
Very disturbing.