I’m trying to understand how this is different than a concept I learned in computer science in the late 80s/early 90s called RPCs (remote procedure calls). My senior project in college used these. Yes I’m old and this was 35 years ago.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Microservice architectures are ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow, implementations of Erlang, implemented by people who think that "actor model" has something to do with Hollywood.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Ok this made me chuckle out loud.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

It's basically the same concept, just implemented with a k8s cluster so you have scale-to-zero capabilities I guess