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What are some examples of $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY and $FLASHY_LANGUAGE these days? All I can remember is Ruby on Rails.

Just sprinkle some magic Kubernetes on your problems and they'll all go away! Oh, and make sure you add a Service Mesh too... just in case.

Kubernetes makes way more problems than what it solves in my company. We even migrated to another cloud provider, hoping for a better managed kubernetes. We ended up with different bugs and issues and a worse than useless support in a different timezone, in addition to a much more expensive cloud bill.

There's no good managed k8s anywhere. You can get bad managed k8s cheaply from Digital Ocean, or expensively from EKS or GKS, whose pricing and service levels are broadly similar. The major difference is that, if you do >$100M ARR and have EKS spend to match, you can expect to have several TAMs available, at least one of whom will usually understand what they're all taking turns apologizing for this time. Google, by contrast, will never give a shit about you no matter who you are, and charges slightly more for this service.

React, Typescript, GraphQL, Rust and Go more recently. But there’s been plenty since and prior to Rails. I remember all the Java hotness.

"Serverless"

(which looks an awful lot like cgi-bin and shared hosting all over again)

Blockchain and Rust. You get five ironic moustaches if it compiles to web assembly.

At least web assembly brings us something completely new that we never had before. Rust is just an attempt to improve things, which is fine! But, it needs a decades long proven track record to come close to competing with Java/C++/PHP, which takes time obviously.

I think the cool kids are moving to DOS on Dope or Cobol on Cogs.

As someone leading the charge moving a company from Rails on Heroku to Go on Kubernetes with Prometheus/Jaeger/Fluentd/$CNCF I’ll be self aware enough to say “all of the latter.”

Elixir, Node, Scala, Go, React, SPAs in general

* Anything CSS-in-JS

* any new Nxxt.js framework that looks a lot like PHP 4, with HTML, SQL and JavaScript mixed all over the place.

Node.js itself was the new hotness for a while.

Java on Javascript is the cool thing these days

Are you referring to typescript? If so, that’s hilarious

Mostly Rust and yet another JS framework.

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