A lot of newer technologies solve problems that only very large companies face— mostly to do with scaling multiple systems and synchronising their state.
It’s in these companys’ best interest to recommend these technologies to all developers and companies, because it increases their pool of available hiring talent.
That’s how you get startups writing from the ground up, a micro-service backed SPA with layers of abstraction for the data to pass through; when honestly, a SSR monolith backed by MySQL would be better for them.
GraphQL is a great example. Try stepping through all the first and third party code involved in serving up a simple list of records from an SQL database. Mounds of useless abstraction and boilerplate. YAGNI. But the same could be said for SQL databases...
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A lot of newer technologies solve problems that only very large companies face— mostly to do with scaling multiple systems and synchronising their state.
It’s in these companys’ best interest to recommend these technologies to all developers and companies, because it increases their pool of available hiring talent.
That’s how you get startups writing from the ground up, a micro-service backed SPA with layers of abstraction for the data to pass through; when honestly, a SSR monolith backed by MySQL would be better for them.
GraphQL is a great example. Try stepping through all the first and third party code involved in serving up a simple list of records from an SQL database. Mounds of useless abstraction and boilerplate. YAGNI. But the same could be said for SQL databases...