On: Your computer is a distributed system

[NavinF]

It’s “basically solved” in the sense that everyone gave up on distributed OSes and used k8s instead.

[zozbot234 → NavinF]

K8s is doing distributed OS's on easy mode, supporting basically ephemeral 'webscale' workloads for pure horizontal scaling. Even then it introduces legendary amounts of non-essential complexity in pursuit of this goal. It gets used because "Worse is better" is a thing, not because anyone thinks it's an unusually effective way to address these problems.

[pjmlp → NavinF]

I see K8S as Application Servers for everyone, with containers replacing EARs, it certainly gets some WebLogic/WebSphere vibes when looking at those yml files and how we used to setup an Application Server cluster.

[marcosdumay → NavinF]

K8s just pushes the problem into the application layer, where every developer must solve it independently. It's not like it solves anything.