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Re:The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 by sedachv on Monday January 22, 2018 @02:33AM (#16202550)
> Higher levels of abstraction makes it easier to get something up and running fast

More layers of indirection in a system and more dependencies on external libraries and tooling does not necessarily get you any abstractions. To take a contemporary example, there is no "abstraction" in being driven to use Docker because your dependencies have gotten unmanageable otherwise.

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Re:The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 by smaddox on Monday January 22, 2018 @10:11AM (#16204868)
Docker is an abstraction...
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Re:The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 by sedachv on Monday January 22, 2018 @08:05PM (#16209885)
No it's not. OS-level virtualization is the abstraction. Docker is a set of tools to manage Linux containers and virtual filesystems. You can argue that libvirt is an abstraction because it does actually work over several different virtualization technologies.
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