Re:How to Improve Your Monolith Before Transitioning to Micr...
by codethief on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:22PM
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> remote calls looked the same as local calls
To some degree this is actually nice! I mean, one major reason local API calls (in the same programming language) are nicer than network calls – besides avoiding latency – is that network APIs rarely come with strong type safety guarantees (or at least you have to bolt them on on top, think OpenAPI/Swagger). So I actually wish we were in a world where network calls were more similar to local API calls in that regard.
But of course, in the concrete situation you're describing, the fact that
> all local functions calls had parameters serialized to XML
To some degree this is actually nice! I mean, one major reason local API calls (in the same programming language) are nicer than network calls – besides avoiding latency – is that network APIs rarely come with strong type safety guarantees (or at least you have to bolt them on on top, think OpenAPI/Swagger). So I actually wish we were in a world where network calls were more similar to local API calls in that regard.
But of course, in the concrete situation you're describing, the fact that
> all local functions calls had parameters serialized to XML
sounds like a very bad idea.