Comment by rusk

16 hours ago

Micoserices or Monolith. It’s like being caught between the devil and the deep blue see. It’s a pity domain sockets never took off but I guess TCP/IP is the only truly cross platform IPC mechanism …

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inigyou  9 hours ago

Aren't Windows's named pipes very similar?

  • rusk  8 hours ago

    I believe so.

    I don’t think either that or domain sockets are quite as ubiquitous as TCP sockets though.

    The issue I see with domain sockets is that although they may be supported for example by spring, you can’t rely on a consistent cross platform experience which is perhaps (anachronistically?) a core ethic of the Java community.

    I would favour domain sockets as to make a component go from being embedded to networked would require a small but significant implementation step.

    But established best practice unfortunately disagrees with me.

    • inigyou  5 hours ago

      The more interesting thing on Windows would actually be COM, which is something like Java interfaces but for native code, that are optionally cross-process.

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