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Microservices (in practice) are like polyglot: throwing away type safety for no good reason. This shit needs to stop.



You don't have to use JSON-over-HTTP. You can use something like Thrift or Protobuf which gives you statically-typed inter-process communication.


You're completely missing the point. I shouldn't be able to connect two interface-mismatched services in the first place.




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