[stanley]

Similar situation and opinions here. We've launched on Rails and have since invested towards SOA. One reason was the increased complexity of the frontend solution as experience became more important in the minds of the consumers. Another was the benefit of languages which previously weren't an option because the open source community wasn't as interested.

One thing I'm curious about is how the growth in SOA popularity impacts the software ecosystem around deploying and managing micro-services. Interesting space to watch, for sure.

[aurora72]

When it comes to SOA, I think Node is one of the greatest examples. Btw, has anybody noticed that npm has become extremely common? It looks like npm is used even on projects which are not based on Node.js.

[albertoleal]

Is this true? Are there examples? I'm guessing client-side apps built with browserify/webpack?