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Esprit de Vore

I was the sysadmin responsible for containerized cloud orchestration platforms at my job in 2003, back when it was called Apache Tomcat (TM)

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Owen (spoopy aspect)

@aphyr You joke but I have repeatedly observed that projects like knative appear _determined_ to reinvent Java EE/DCOM, which in turn reinvented CORBA, which in turn…

Esprit de Vore

@owen oh no I'm 100% on board with this critique haha

Vertigo #$FF

@aphyr @owen BINGO.

People often complain about how terrible working with CORBA is; but, the reality is it's no worse than working with Xlib.

You know what people did with Xlib? They didn't throw X11 out; no, they wrote XCB to replace Xlib.

So why would anyone throw away CORBA? They should have replaced the typical ORB architecture with a new IIOP binding. I guess people just didn't think of it back then.

Owen (spoopy aspect)

@aphyr The main evolution appears to be what concerns get placed on either side of the developer/administrator line, and honestly, there is some useful insight into changes in organizational norms there.

Esprit de Vore

@pfriedma psychic splash damage to every admin over 35 😆

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