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Re:Microservices Considered Harmful (2019) by twic on Sunday June 07, 2020 @03:58PM (#23450253)
> If you read up on the fundamental papers regarding software reliability this is something that's brought up ad nauseum.

I don't believe there are any papers that show that adding network hops to an application makes it more reliable. I would be extremely interested in any references you could provide.

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Re:Microservices Considered Harmful (2019) by staticassertion on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:10PM (#23450363)
Not the network bit, the separation of state and the process abstraction.

https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.7.pdf

Here's one paper that discusses building reliable systems from two abstractions - the process and transaction.

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