There's so much excusing away while things will be bad, for a long time, but that doesn't seem particularly hacker-ful. I'm glad those views are represented, bu

There's so much excusing away while things will be bad, for a long time, but that doesn't seem particularly hacker-ful. I'm glad those views are represented, but as many HN threads the status quo is again decidedly notably business-as-usual in-defense-of-meh. That said, I do think front end routers are just taking over. Kubernetes Gateway API is the front end API, hard fought for & iterated again and again and again, to become a baseline set of expectations that's basically great. Having a front end that can compose routes is so so so good & powerful, needed to be standardized, and this seems far & away like what is happening. I tend to agree that we have too often in the past intermediated our services. It wasn't even a firewall, but my org used to basically out of habit put an nginx in each container in front of node. No one knew why, no one could conjecture what for, but we just let it roll. WAF is that kind of thoughtless mindless zombie nonsense.