I always thought that backend development would converge around a Parse-style API -- basically just CRUD as a service. There's always going to be special bits o

I always thought that backend development would converge around a Parse-style API -- basically just CRUD as a service. There's always going to be special bits of logic that need to be executed in certain conditions, so probably some straightforward way of handling that (like Parse's Cloud Code feature) is needed + some way to handle recurring jobs/background workers. IMO, right now, web development is just an exercise in how complex we can make string concatenation. Getting away from that would be really nice. Things I hope don't happen: everyone uses lambda for everything, everything happens on a blockchain style network, etc. Those technologies are cool, but I feel like a lot of people view them as a golden hammer.