[HN Gopher] PlanD: Plan9 from Containerspace
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PlanD: Plan9 from Containerspace
Author : drybjed
Score : 14 points
Date : 2023-04-18 19:32 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| rektide wrote:
| > _One of these fundamental ideas was the notion of a system
| composed of microservices communicating via a well established
| system of network API requests encoded as 9P messages._
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| I'm still reading but this strikes me as a misservice.
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| Messages I recognize are lower in the abstraction stack & this
| isn't an inherently incorrect statement. But I think it
| mispercieves the nature of 9p. 9p is a remote filesystem, that so
| happens to be built out of messages. The author here emphases
| _operations-_ messages- but 9p is really what 's in those
| messages, what the messages represent, which is _structure_ &
| state.
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| The 9p spirit isn't about sending messages. It's about exposing
| your well structured state to the world. Rather than as most
| programs do hiding it close to your chest... and only exposing
| complex artisinally-homegrown inter-face abstracted atop that.
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| If everyone just exposed their state well, that'd be great.
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