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by bluecmd
2583 days ago
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Author here, I agree 100%. It is just a different way of building software, which is why I find these things so interesting. It challenges my worldview and thus I want to learn more about its upsides and downsides. CICS and IMS definitely made it easy to create scalable software decades ago. It is not that different from the frameworks we have invented to make distributed systems viable that you mention, which I find insanely cool. One of the cool things of running e.g. Ceph is that it exposes a familiar API (POSIX filesystem) which makes things easy to integrate with. The mainframe is like that but for hardware. VMware has similar things to some degree where your VM can be kept alive across hardware failure, but not really on the same level. Anyway, I will stop here but I could go on for hours :-) |
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Oh please go on for hours; I'd love to hear more. Any format (blog or just semi-structured brain dumps in comment threads) will feed thoughts :-)