2 years ago

Category: Data

In the 1960s, implementing a new operating system was considered a herculean effort, akin to the moon landing. Greer explains how just two engineers — Dennis Richie and Ken Thompson — accomplished such a feat while building Unix.

This is where the second sentence of the Unix philosophy comes in: write programs to work together.

As a result, a service mesh is coded once and immediately applicable to every service in every language.

We can imagine a future in which each service, coded in any language, created at every company, comes into existence ready-to-go for a “production-caliber” deployment.