WASM will replace containers

Re:WASM will replace containers by moribvndvs on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @10:01PM (#43021361)

One benefit of being an old engineer is watching how excited people get when they rediscover something that has gone around the bend over and over again. I swear if you fuckers reinvent DCOM I will shit in your hats.

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Re:WASM will replace containers by cheesekunator on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:34PM (#43021928)

I actually didn't mind COM and DCOM. I didn't overuse it, so it never bit me. I guess it's why I love using Microsoft Orleans. The virtual actor model is enough for me to solve almost every problem. If Cloudflare Durable Objects (https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects) can reduce latency they might have the winning product.

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Re:WASM will replace containers by crabmusket on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @06:55AM (#43024443)

On that note, do you mind helping me understand something I haven't been able to glean from Microsoft's docs? Does Orleans give you a way to globally address a thread?

With Durable Objects, two clients on either side of the world can both request a websocket connection to an object with the same unique identifier, and all the bytes from those clients will land in one single process somewhere inside a CloudFlare data centre.

I am pretty sure the answer is yes, but the docs seem a bit less direct than CloudFlare's web focused use cases.

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Re:WASM will replace containers by mdaniel on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @10:08PM (#43021400)

Preach it, because document/literal SOAP and WSDL are The Way, The Truth, and The Light!

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Re:WASM will replace containers by RantyDave on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:06PM (#43021771)

OMG I hated DCOM so thoroughly.

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Re:WASM will replace containers by invalidname on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @10:26PM (#43021517)

Exactly. It's like the JVM circa 2004. Without all the observability and features we have today and half the performance/reliability/security.

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Re:WASM will replace containers by pjmlp on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:53AM (#43022952)

We had them, Java EE application servers had all of that available, as did CLR/IIS, or IBM AS/400 for that matter, really we have seen it before.

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Re:WASM will replace containers by pjmlp on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:52AM (#43022945)

Actually it is more like CORBA, powered by RMI.

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Re:WASM will replace containers by aqueueaqueue on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @03:25AM (#43023125)

I can invent spinning green balls.

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