[prohobo]

I disagree, I think we just got caught up in a whirlwind in 2015 that people still haven't recovered from.

There actually hasn't been any real trend away from current tech since about 2015. People are still using the same TypeScript/Node/Python/Go and GraphQL/MongoDB/Postgres stacks, still using Docker/Kubernetes, and still using React/Vue for frontends.

The trend towards cloud-based services was also started around 2015. People are still using Heroku despite it largely being considered stagnant. Cloud services like AWS are just more convenient for teams that don't own hardware.

I don't see any of this tech going away or being replaced because I don't think anyone can think of any better abstractions right now. Hardware and platforms would have to fundamentally change in order for software engineers to start thinking up new ways of abstracting them. Current tech stacks will of course be endlessly tweaked and "improved", but I don't think anything major will change for a long time.

The newest thing that I can think of is just a CSS class library called Tailwindcss. That's literally the only change in my basic stack in the past few years.

I also don't believe any core tech is being thrown out. As others have said, the initial excesses of the web tech whirlwind are receding back quite a bit.

[silax]

Based big thought here. It's curious that industry tooling is arguably plateauing around then, but it's also amazing that the database, er, SaaS is on such a long run, like from a diffusion of innovations way.