De Programmatica Ipsum"The market took the best of OOP: encapsulation and messaging. The Cloud Native world remarketed them as microservices, exchanging JSON messages over HTTP. Kubernetes is the new OO app runtime.
The tradeoff? Latency is worse than using Objective-C’s objc_msgSend() or COM+ IDispatch, but now we can apply Conway’s law and divide our teams conveniently: so that they only communicate using JSON messages on the cluster and with nerf guns on the open office floor plan."
The Hype Cycle Of OOP
Even though Marketing buzzwords might have an effect akin to Kryptonite against our readers, we're going to use the famous Gartner's Five-Step Hype Cycle to take a closer look at the practice of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and its various ups and downs in the past 50 years. Remembering that one of the core tenets of this magazine is to make the impossible dialogue possible, the framework provided by Gartner fits this task perfectly well.