The perils of federated protocols

Posted May 26, 2016 6:02 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: The perils of federated protocols by madhatter
Parent article: The perils of federated protocols

> I'd have the check my daybook to be sure, but my memory is that it took me less than a decade to type and commit the above change.
Duh. You probably don't have an expensive middlebox in front of your server doing load balancing.

The perils of federated protocols

Posted May 26, 2016 6:35 UTC (Thu) by madhatter (subscriber, #4665) [Link]

I agree that code that's baked into firmware (especially on platforms that are infrequently upgraded by the manufacturer) is much harder to upgrade than code that's deployed in software, but that's equally true on client (eg, think weird android-esque tablets) as on server platforms. That's a pretty good argument for using general-purpose computing platforms for as much as possible, but I'm not sure it argues specifically against servers.