Ask HN: Biggest divides in next 3-5 years of software?

What do you think the biggest divides in technology will be over the next 3-5 years?

For example: - REST vs GraphQL - K8s vs EC2 - Spark vs Containerized workloads - Apollo vs rest of MVC

The Hashicorp suite vs Docker/K8s will be a big one. My first impression was that containerizing everything was just the obviously superior approach, but then I had to actually deploy a job to K8s and I discovered that the technology has serious stability issues. I still like the idea, but when I’m being paid to write and deploy automation that just works I can’t afford to “follow my heart”, so to speak.

To be fair, I’m in a situation where I can control the entire stack if I go with Terraform, whereas the K8s clusters are controlled by a different team. Still, the K8s cluster node was the point of failure. (It suddenly stopped being able to resolve AWS service endpoints.)

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