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Re:An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real ... by closeparen on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @09:20PM (#26719464)
As long as the network protocols stay in the mainstream, the implementation tech stacks of remote services will become “ancient” and “icky” without callers really noticing. I suspect they will stay around much longer as people program around them without comprehending what horrors lay inside.
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Re:An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real ... by snth on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @10:13AM (#26725244)
I wish we could treat services as black boxes like this, but who can run services these days without keeping on top of dependency, security, and platform updates? The inevitable deprecation of some of these means surgery will soon be required to keep a service running and secure.
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