Transcending Posix: The End of an Era?
> However, contemporary applications rarely run on a single machine. They increasingly use remote procedure calls (RPC), HTTP and REST APIs, distributed key-value stores, and databases,<p>I'm seeing an increasing trend of pushback against this norm. An early example was David Crawshaw's one-process programming notes [1]. Running the database in the same process as the application server, using SQLite, is getting more popular with the rise of Litestream [2]. Earlier this year, I found the post "One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly" [3] quite refreshing.<p>Most of us can ignore FAANG-scale problems and keep right on using POSIX on a handful of machines.<p>[1]: <a href="https://crawshaw.io/blog/one-process-programming-notes" rel="nofollow">https://crawshaw.io/blog/one-process-programming-notes</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://litestream.io/" rel="nofollow">https://litestream.io/</a><p>[3]; <a href="https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/01/27/scale/" rel="nofollow">https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/01/27/scale/</a>