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Re:An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real ... by ABeeSea on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:08AM (#26723161)
Since servers are ephemeral, any function call of note will need to traverse the network in some way anyway.
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Re:An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real ... by beaconstudios on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:22AM (#26723246)
that's true, but there's traversing 2 links for a simple client<->server<->database setup, or traversing dozens or even hundreds of links for a microservice architecture, adding tons of fragility for no unique benefit.
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Re:An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real ... by asimpletune on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:58PM (#26731928)
Well, there are legitimate benefits, it's just that few organizations are poised to understand/utilize them.
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