> So they try to convince their companies their products need to be rewritten in mongodb, react with graphql in a micro service stack and many more state of the

> So they try to convince their companies their products need to be rewritten in mongodb, react with graphql in a micro service stack and many more state of the art technologies. I find it interesting that these technologies are considered "state of the art" (SOTA). What does SOTA mean in this context? I could see an argument for postgresql and rails/django being SOTA as I think many believe them to be fairly mature, secure, and feature complete.