Everything goes through the hype-cycle ie 'trough of disillusionment'. 'Serverless' is one that is here to stay for sure. Nobody likes having to manage 'instan

Everything goes through the hype-cycle ie 'trough of disillusionment'. 'Serverless' is one that is here to stay for sure. Nobody likes having to manage 'instances'. There's a gold mine for anyone who can reliably make something that 'just runs your code at scale' - in a normal format, without a lot of weird apis or behaviours. AWS Lambda's are 'almost it' but there's a few caveats that make them annoying enough that they are not the solution. NoSQL are limited mostly by: A) lack of 'joins' in queries and B) too many query languages. I suggest both of those problems are solvable, in which case they might be even better than RDBMS for many apps. Also - many people just don't know how to 'data model' for them. Or maybe RDBMS will come a long with an easy 'flex table' solution and solve the problem noSQL was trying to solve and make it relevant. (Who knows, maybe they have? I don't pay close attention to that community). As for Justin Bieber - well - there's 'no advantage' to everyone listening to 'Justin Bieber' - but because technology has to 'work together' - there is an existential advantage when we 'all use the same stuff'. 1 solid tool that everyone uses is probably better than 100 different tools, each of them a little bit better in different ways, and nobody on the same page. Finally - the bleeding edge is important though, it's the tip of innovation where new stuff happens :)