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by Vampiero
618 days ago
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Nah you just realized that CRUD has been the same since the 90s and that everything that gets reinvented isn't actually in the path between the problem and the solution, but pure architectural masturbation that wouldn't be necessary if web devs didn't come up with new designs for the wheel every 5 minutes. You don't see the same bs in other areas of computer science. |
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It's not like databases haven't been reinvented every time there's a new fancy startup.
MySQL the OG "but web scale" DB (even with InnoDB because consistency level set to - you guessed it - "web scale"), then all the NoSQL kids because of course "web scale", then SSD/NAND write-amplification and LSM and LevelDB and whatnot and nowadays RocksDB. And there's the memcached/Redis/Valkey.
It's not like networking is not doing the same. HTTP2, HTTP3. DNS over HTTPS, how amazing it is to establish a TLS connection just to send a base64 encoded DNS question. WTF. And there's a myriad things in eBPF land, all the kubernetes-related CNI providers, and during the OpenStack years we had new overlay networks every year (VXLAN, Geneve, and I forgot the name of the other stuff), and if you go a bit closer to datacenter networking and peek into the firehose of 802.1 of new protocols you'll drown from the constant buzz over which variation of the same thing is the obviously best one! (I still remember when people started to realize that maybe there's a better and cheaper way to avoid VLAN and spanning tree problems than "just buy Cisco forever and don't forget to enable rapid STP (802.1w)" ... and then for a while there was MSTP (802.1s), TRILL, and SPB (802.1aq) and now it's managed networks all the way down, I guess)