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

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NoSQL didn’t win thankfully, relational databases are still the dominant technology.

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.

Pretty sure we have a legacy product using MongoSB, but for certain processes we ETL stuff into SQL Server first.

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.

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.

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.

The web has been pretty successful too.

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