One thing that I think is going away is eventual consistency at the application layer. It is too much of a technical debt and error prone for most applications.

One thing that I think is going away is eventual consistency at the application layer. It is too much of a technical debt and error prone for most applications. It is much easier to reason about a consistent database. And systems like Google Spanner, and CockroachDB show that you can have a consistent database with good scaling and good performance.