Great article. One point though (not aimed at the author).

The majority of engineering articles I see today are along the lines of "X with Y, using Z", where X, Y, Z are specific products, frameworks or libraries, often trademarks.

I rarely see more generic engineering/architecture topics such as: [virtual DOM based / string based client side templating] with [JSON/Protobuf] over [REST/Websocket] with a [compiled / interpreted / JIT compiled / virtual machine based] backend runtime, built on [RDBMS/NoSQL/hybrid] etc.

Am I alone in feeling this way?