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Re:The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets by didibus on Thursday February 25, 2021 @06:17PM (#26269607)
Not sure what is so hard about a client/server roundtrip?

The server side is being broken up into micro-services which makes all server a client/server roundtrip as well. Your DB was always running seperately making it a client/server roundtrip, etc.

Maybe I'm missing something, but what aspect of client/server is overly complex? And why is websocket (a client/server roundtrip mechanism) any easier?

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Re:The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets by ric2b on Saturday March 06, 2021 @12:15PM (#26368849)
>The server side is being broken up into micro-services which makes all server a client/server roundtrip as well. Your DB was always running seperately making it a client/server roundtrip, etc.

The backend is likely all in the same building with a reliable and high-bandwith link between servers.

You can't compare that to a round-trip from the client to the backend.

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