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New GitHub Tool Lets Coders Build Software Like Bridges

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Re: New GitHub Tool Lets Coders Build Software Like Bridges

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I got really excited about this thinking that it was something that worked outside of the code base as an interface proxy that could work cross-language.

Yes, I was imagining a "traffic demultiplexer" of some sort that could feed the old and new backend in parallel and observe they have the same behaviour.

I think something like that would be useful for a lot of people in industry who have to maintain legacy monoliths. The ideal tool would allow "switchover" from old to new gradually, one URL endpoint at a time.

This can be used to replay traffic https://github.com/buger/gor/ so can do load testing at least...

Re: New GitHub Tool Lets Coders Build Software Like Bridges

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Nobody mentioned Erlang so far. My biggest disappointment with "Scientist" is that it basically provides service which Erlang code has for free - hot code reloading. For decades now. Along with other cool features like great support for parallel execution, hierarchical monitoring and so on. Article mentions some early user raves about this tool in context of "it allows me do refactoring!" Of course it would help, but…

"The greatest form of flattery is imitation." Huh, does that apply less if they've basically never heard of you when they imitate you? Not to imply that Erlang is unheard of, I'm just saying it's not as popular and orthodox as Python/Ruby/C/java/etc.

There is a variant of hot code reloading (dynamic binary program patching) for C.

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hollings/papers/apijournal.pdf

And there even older one (I cannot find because search in my blog (LJ) is broken).

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