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by pjmlp 4997 days ago
I didn't go it. After all I've been coding distributed applications since early 90's.

So what changed in network topologies?

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Nothing. Similar to yourself my world hasn't changed in that time, and cloud hasn't affected me either.

Cloud is a great idea, assuming you're scratch-building for a particular environment (AWS, Azure, etc). Targeting one of those environments constrains my choice of technologies and tools, unless I have the cash for my own private cloud. I don't.

So the only real change for me in the last 20 years has been the switch to IP, and on top of that HTTP instead of TCP. My remote procedure calls still contain byte arrays, and I build all servers and their components myself.

You don't have to worry about IPX/SPX or Token Ring any longer... that's progress.