[tkiolp4]

I think the question is: what comes after micro services/distributed systems? Whatever that is, will make k8s obsolete.

My bet: rich fat clients. Super powerful phones that can run your entire e-commerce monolith to process my checkout. I’m talking about hosting your backend (most of it) and DB on my phone. Cheap syncs from my phone to your “main” server is fine because I’m always online and I have 10G connection. This will also force a shift in the way we develop programs.

So you no longer need to deploy and maintain hundreds of services. You’ll only need to deploy and maintain one that gets synced to millions of devices (no app stores) rather fast (because, yes, a new compression algorithm will emerge and your whole monolith is now only a couple of megabytes).

[quickthrower2]

How would such a fat client setup handle authorisation?

Closest thing to what you mention is fire base as a back end. I guess that can work.