~socket(); // death of socket programming?

~socket(); // death of socket programming?

Interesting article on sockets, a technology created in 1982. It shows how some of the limitations that were around in 1982 are expressed in the sockets architecture and how we are still being affected by the design decisions in this stack.

It talks about the need for multihoming, but I also wonder on the implications for moving away from a client/server model, and the transistion to SOA/ESB/Cloud type technologies - do we need to rethink some of the lower level stack?