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It's like every fashion fad in IT: stuff hits, everybody goes gaga over the toy examples until it's time to put it in production. Then they finally find out wha

It's like every fashion fad in IT: stuff hits, everybody goes gaga over the toy examples until it's time to put it in production. Then they finally find out what kind of a dumpster trash fire the newfangled fashion fad is, and start looking at tried and true technologies. It's always the same.

twblalock 4y ago
Not really. The cloud won. So did microservices and NoSQL databases and containerization. The industry is not going back.
- nickcox 4y ago
  The web has been pretty successful too.
- hans1729 4y ago
  And machine learning. And JavaScript/Python. Things that win always do one of these: - reduce complexity - decrease friction - improve results either qualitatively or quantitatively SQL is not dead or dying by any means. Its just not the only kid on the block anymore.
- ojhughes 4y ago
  NoSQL didn’t win thankfully, relational databases are still the dominant technology.
  - datavirtue 4y ago
    Yeah, and everyone is trying to normalize their mongo schema. The only thing the cloud got us is faster provisioning, and perhaps greater reliability due to that. It didn't magically solve scalability and integrity.
    - the_only_law 4y ago
      Pretty sure we have a legacy product using MongoSB, but for certain processes we ETL stuff into SQL Server first.
- DeathArrow 4y ago
  Both at the former working place and the actual working place we use SQL as the major part of our data storage strategy for microservice based apps. We also use NoSQL but will never give up on SQL.
- dagw 4y ago
  I agree with the cloud and to some extent containerisation, however I don't think NoSQL and microservices "won". Over past couple of years I'm seeing a huge move away from NoSQL and renewed interest in SQL databases in general and Postgres in particular. The same with microservices. I've seen several projects that went all in on microservices a few years go slowly backing away from the approach, as well as newer projects that are being much more cautious with taking a micro service approach to their architecture.

twblalock 4y ago

Not really. The cloud won. So did microservices and NoSQL databases and containerization. The industry is not going back.

nickcox 4y ago
The web has been pretty successful too.
hans1729 4y ago
And machine learning. And JavaScript/Python. Things that win always do one of these: - reduce complexity - decrease friction - improve results either qualitatively or quantitatively SQL is not dead or dying by any means. Its just not the only kid on the block anymore.
ojhughes 4y ago
NoSQL didn’t win thankfully, relational databases are still the dominant technology.
- datavirtue 4y ago
  Yeah, and everyone is trying to normalize their mongo schema. The only thing the cloud got us is faster provisioning, and perhaps greater reliability due to that. It didn't magically solve scalability and integrity.
  - the_only_law 4y ago
    Pretty sure we have a legacy product using MongoSB, but for certain processes we ETL stuff into SQL Server first.
DeathArrow 4y ago
Both at the former working place and the actual working place we use SQL as the major part of our data storage strategy for microservice based apps. We also use NoSQL but will never give up on SQL.
dagw 4y ago
I agree with the cloud and to some extent containerisation, however I don't think NoSQL and microservices "won". Over past couple of years I'm seeing a huge move away from NoSQL and renewed interest in SQL databases in general and Postgres in particular. The same with microservices. I've seen several projects that went all in on microservices a few years go slowly backing away from the approach, as well as newer projects that are being much more cautious with taking a micro service approach to their architecture.