That’s a good way to put it. It’s also possible to use Kafka message queues to share data with other teams instead of using docker apps with rest apis. I’ve seen it done pretty well. But depends on what needs to be shared and how flexible it needs to be.

I think micro services are useful if you need to scale your application parts independently from other parts.

But I think now everyone uses micro services because it fulfills the developer dreams of being able to write code independently, and have it run on your computer inside docker.

So using docker is probably the best part about micro services. The downside of all this is the extra complexity in having them talk to eachother and that is the difficult part. When everything goes over the network and is async, you run into lots of potential error scenarios that must be handled. And each call is a million times slower compared to local.

It’s not the future. It’s just a tech trend and it will be something else in a few years. Tech never stays the same for very long.

Never tried passing the GPU through. You use virtualbox or something else?

I guess it will work for basic web pages…

I guessing he never become rich, despite having an enormous impact on the tech landscape.