I love watching the pendulum swing back and forth in tech. From mainframes to pc's ... to thin clients ... to server rendered HTML ... to client side framework

I love watching the pendulum swing back and forth in tech. From mainframes to pc's ... to thin clients ... to server rendered HTML ... to client side frameworks ... to microservices I'm sure I could come up with more examples. I was just thinking of re-architecting a heavy apache web head app into unikernel super light micro services. It just makes me chuckle as we swing back and forth and try to find the right balance. Each generation sort of saying "Hey wait there's a CPU over here on this side of the diagram and it could do X/Y/Z". Recently I've been working on Raspberry Pi's so much that when I logged into a nice medium sized EC2 instance I was "shocked at how responsive these are". LOL. I started on machines with 4k of memory and built systems that consume TB of ram across many nodes and data centers. It's fun to go back to my roots trying to cram something into an ESP8266 nodemcu device and thinking about how long I can run it on a LiPo battery. I think this back and forth is good for us, but I encourage everyone to spend time on micro devices to remember just how simple you can solve a problem when confronted with the reality of 20k of ram and 4M of flash storage.