The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist

When you hear the term, you should picture an hourglass with M things on one side, N on the other, and an important concept in the middle.

The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist Why Sponsor Oils? | blog | oilshell.org The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist 2022-02-26 (Last updated 2025-01-03) In December, I reviewed eight 2021 posts on # software-architecture . This post goes deeper in that direction, showing diagrams of the narrow waist idea. When you hear the term, you should picture an hourglass with M things on one side, N on the other, and an important concept in the middle. Recap: A narrow waist is concept, interface, or protocol that solves an interoperability problem. It avoids O(M × N) code explosions , let

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