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		specialist on April 30, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Serverless Takes DevOps to the Next Level Isn't "serverless" the (slow) realization of Sun's agent-based grid computing? I bought into Sun's vision. So much so I was gobsmacked by AWS' strategy. Which is genius in its own way: Virtualize every interface. Versus deploy self contained mobile code called "agents". Watching "cloud" computing evolve into "grid" computing reminds me of the quote: "Every sufficiently complex 'C' program reinvents LISP, poorly."

tjalfi on April 30, 2017 [–]

The last line is a paraphrase of Greenspun's 10th Law[0]:

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

[0] http://philip.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...

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