Re: REST impact paper
"Stephen D. Williams" <[email protected]>
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On 9/8/17 6:22 AM, Gregory Alan Bolcer wrote: > There's a famous software quote that I can't find offhand, but it goes something like this: The most successful software is > always the one where its users find uses for it beyond what the author originally intended. > > Yeah, I butchered that, but for the life of me I can't find the quote. > So there's your measure of impact. Things being successfully used in places you didn't expect. A) Yes. B) Some things are designed to be reused in the widest possible ways without gatekeeping: The expected unexpected. Practically everything in Unix is designed with that in mind which is why, after weathering a couple winters due to the ignorance and immaturity of too many, it is everywhere for everything. !Unix/Linux is the exception. Things like Docker et al are just reusing / building on / extending those principles in logical ways. Stringing together a stack of services in Docker is fun btw, if you do it cleanly. Conversely, although OpenWhisk uses containers, their setup process for a new instance takes tens of minutes. Everything else I'm using (reverse proxy, web, real-time messaging, caching, database, app microservices) can be configured and running from a cold start in 10-20 seconds, plus downloading any images not already cached. Too bad, they are on the right track except for implementation details. > > Greg > > On 9/8/2017 12:52 AM, Stephen D. Williams wrote: >> * Application of the pattern to new situations sdw _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork