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Feb 24, 2022 1 hr 1 min

CORBA: Failed Distributed Architecture (The Technium Podcast S02 E07)

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CORBA is an acronym that stands for common object request, broker architecture. It provides interoperability among distributed objects regardless of whether they're remote or local, regardless of whether they're written in different languages or in different locations of the network. We discuss its influence on distributed systems, and where we are today with these large scale systems Links/Resources: Chapters: 0:37 Intros 2:20 What is CORBA? 4:08 90's Throwback 7:25 The Idea of Distributed Objects 9:55 How does it work? 13:16 The Promise of Interoperability 15:35 Influence on Computing Today 18:52 Why did CORBA fail? 24:39 Lots of People Missed the Web 30:09 Distributed Computing 36:06 The REST model of Distributed 40:35 RPC lives on today 47:13 Hard to get this right 52:08 Negotiating Interfaces from Scratch ===== About “The Technium” ===== The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more! ===== Socials ===== WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7 APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545

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