Posted by Douglas Brebner-2 on Aug 19, 2020; 6:22pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/A-Sad-Day-tp5120519p5120678.html

Just an idea while a car is waiting to take me on a vacation.

Imagine:

1. You have a computer with many independently running images.
2. A super fast facility pass messages between the images,
3. Selected services in the release image are move out and deployed as server objects in another image.
4. Every image appears as a server offering RESTful interfaces to other images.
5. Selected packages in any repository can be downloaded, compiled, instantiated, and deployed in an image as server objects.
6. The different images can even run in different computers and use different VMs.
   
7. There are now two dimensions to the reuse of functionality: a) download and compile a package. b In some image, install a package and deploy it as a server object.
8. And presto: The original image is now small and manageable while the whole system can grow without increasing the complexity of the release image.

In haste. This is just an idea. It's full of holes and need a lot of work done to it before it can be usable.. It's a disruptive idea, so please give it some consideration This is before you shoot it down
--Trygve

Sort of like using Images as Actors?