Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?
by whstl on Saturday December 23, 2023 @11:19AM
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Agree. I also loved the simplicity. It’s not that different from Serverless, if you look at it.
There is an HTTP server handling all the HTTP stuff and process launching (API gateway in AWS parlance), and the communication between it and the “script” just uses language or OS primitives instead of more complex APIs.
The 2000s were quite wild in how things changed… suddenly you have giant frameworks that also parse HTTP, a reverse proxy. At some point even PHP became all about frameworks.
I wonder if we wouldn’t have a more open, standardized and mature version of CGI/Serverless if it had been a more gradual transition rather than a couple of very abrupt paradigm shifts.
There is an HTTP server handling all the HTTP stuff and process launching (API gateway in AWS parlance), and the communication between it and the “script” just uses language or OS primitives instead of more complex APIs.
The 2000s were quite wild in how things changed… suddenly you have giant frameworks that also parse HTTP, a reverse proxy. At some point even PHP became all about frameworks.
I wonder if we wouldn’t have a more open, standardized and mature version of CGI/Serverless if it had been a more gradual transition rather than a couple of very abrupt paradigm shifts.