The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website
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- Author: Hugo Landau
- Full Title: The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website
- Category: articles
- URL: https://www.devever.net/~hl/mildlydynamic
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- But the “hackish state” of web development that PHP supported went beyond this in a way that, having experienced it, I find hard to describe; perhaps the closest analogy is environments designed to enable programmatic art, like the interesting recent development of live music programming environments. You could call it a kind of jamming. Though there are countless server-side web frameworks, PHP is uniquely adapted to do server-side development in a jamming state of mind. (View Highlight)
- It's long been fairly apparent to me that the average modern web developer has no comprehension of what the web actually is3. (View Highlight)
- Recently we've seen the rise in popularity of AWS Lambda, a “functions as a service” provider. From my perspective this is literally a reinvention of CGI, except a) much more complicated for essentially the same functionality, b) with vendor lock-in, c) with a much more complex and bespoke deployment process which requires the use of special tools. (View Highlight)
- I'm genuinely curious how many people find AWS Lambda interesting because they've never encountered, or never properly looked at, CGI. (View Highlight)
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