On: Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza (2015)

[kermatt]

> However, most self-respecting developers have got rid of mutable global variables in their code long ago.

Is this a dig on those of us who have not gone to pure FP languages, or just those who use globally scoped (unscoped) variables?

[cowardlydragon → kermatt]

It's piggybacking a known issue in one domain into another one with dubious intent...

Aka marketing

[rhizome → kermatt]

The latter, I imagine.