> As you note, it was all solvable before. Washing clothes was possible before people had a washing machine, too; I’m not sure they would want to go back to th

> As you note, it was all solvable before. Washing clothes was possible before people had a washing machine, too; I’m not sure they would want to go back to that, though. I was there in the VM time, and I had to set up appliances shipped as a VM instance. It was awful. The complexity around updates and hypervisors, and all that OS adjustment work just to get a runtime environment going, that just disappeared with Docker (if done right, I’ll give you that). Organisations manage to abuse technology all the time. Remember when Roy Fielding wrote about using HTTP sensibly to transfer state from one system to another? Suddenly everything had to be „RESTful“, which for most people just meant that you tried to use as many HTTP verbs as possible and performed awkward URL gymnastics to get speaking resource identifiers. Horrible. But all of this doesn’t mean REST is a bad idea of itself - it’s a wonderful one, in fact, and can make an API substantially easier to reason about.