Comment by colonwqbang
10 hours ago
There have been many such cycles, but the XML hysteria of the 00s is the worst I can think of. It lasted a long time and the square peg XML was shoved into so many round holes.
10 hours ago
There have been many such cycles, but the XML hysteria of the 00s is the worst I can think of. It lasted a long time and the square peg XML was shoved into so many round holes.
IDK, the XML hysteria is similar by comparison to the dynamic and functional languages hysterias. And it pales in comparison to the micro services, SPA and the current AI hysterias.
IMHO it's pretty comparable, the difference is only in the magnitude of insanity. After all, the industry did crap out these hardware XML accelerators that were supposed to improve performance of doing massive amounts of XML transformations — is it not the GPU/TPU craze of today?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_appliance
E.g.
https://www.serverwatch.com/hardware/power-up-xml-data-proce...
From your first link
> An XML appliance is a special-purpose network device used to secure, manage and mediate XML traffic.
Holy moly
At least arrays of numbers are naturally much closer to the hardware, we've definitely come a long way in that regard.
Exactly. Compared to microservices XML is a pretty minor problem.
Agreed. Also, Docker.