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Not every problem is one of scale. And with the advent of serverless, problems relating to scalability will be largely abstracted from 99% of developers in the

Not every problem is one of scale. And with the advent of serverless, problems relating to scalability will be largely abstracted from 99% of developers in the future and more of a niche knowledge domain. Just as the inner workings of the OS are largely not well understood by most developers Obviously the principles and theory behind scalability is still important for properly structuring your app, but there won't be many novel problems to solve, and increasingly obvious architecture choices as time goes on

Agingcoder 5y ago
Well, I'd say they won't fully be abstracted away because devs will still have to pay for scalable systems (hw + sw) with dollars. Granted, they won't have to think about designing a solution, but they still won't have the computational power which can be afforded by larger companies (and cloud computing is ridiculously expensive), unless they have a lot of money .