A Framework Is Not a Platform

For most of the time we have been writing web applications, two different teams answered two different questions. The framework team decided what the application looked like. The platform team decided where it ran. The line between the two questions held quietly for thirty years, and it held because nobody seriously challenged it. Rails decided how a controller talked to a model. Spring decided how a bean was wired. Express decided what a route handler looked like. None of them decided what dat...