the recent years often remind me of alan kay talking of objects made up of object talking to objects, i wonder if IaC amongst other trends is not an incarnation of that on a wide scale
Cool, I skipped that link not knowing what it was. There really seems to be a strange conceptual redundancy, you used to wire bits of assembly into classes and plug objects together into cohesive graphs, now it's the same except at the upper layer, containers as entity of logic, network bridging as information transport.. and you suffer from the same issue.. you can have adhoc state in your system config files, inability to initialize a sub component without the rest, lack of logical interfaces..