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The irony I find in this depiction is the "hot new" stuff in today's ecosystem is very often stuff that's already existed for 2-3 decades in some less trendy form, given a new brand identity (complete with cookie-cutter .io website), and grows a Twitter & conference clique around it as though it's being discovered for the first time. "Reactive", "Streams", "Containers", "NoSQL", "Big Data", "Blockchain", the list goe…
What is your analogue to bitcoin from a decade ago ? Merkel trees are old (1979), Hashcash goes back to 1997 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash But bitcoin is not just a rebranding of a combination of hashcash, merk trees, forth, pgp, BitTorrent. Also what is the analogue to reactive in the past ? The main reason for reactive is different screen sizes and orientation of handheld devices. What similar problem wo…
"Reactive", as in http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/, and it's manifestations in various Akka projects like http://www.reactive-streams.org/. Reading the "manifesto" reads like somebody going to really, really extensive lengths to talk about Erlang without actually saying "Erlang" and that's been around publicly, along with its runtime semantics, since 1998.