That is quite literally how Kubernetes works at large, which Plan 9 is to Unix as Kubernetes is to Linux, sort of. When the system is built from the ground up t

That is quite literally how Kubernetes works at large, which Plan 9 is to Unix as Kubernetes is to Linux, sort of. When the system is built from the ground up to be distributed across heterogeneous systems, you basically must build higher order protocols on top of really really simple ones. It's not that opening a byte-stream socket is the best interface for everything, it's that it's the lowest common denominator that everything can agree on no matter what. This is very obviously an acceptable solution because the whole world runs on TCP.