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A load balancer? Operating system kernel?
by karmakaze 4y ago
A load balancer? Operating system kernel?
- sfink 4y agoA load balancer is a compiler. Instruction scheduling and register allocation are probably the most similar tasks. An OS kernel is a database, or rather a DBMS. Query planning fits well. Arguably, a load balancer is a primitive query planner. Perhaps DBMSes are compilers?
- karmakaze 4y agoIt seems that these arguments can also be applied in reverse, so it's quite a loose interpretation, but I do see the logic in them.