> The "microservices by fad" based architecture usually comes with a huge decrease in performance and an even large one in reliability.
Good point, that one was a big mess.
> The NoSQL for no reason fad came with horrible performance and some very bad data losses.
100% agreed. My perception at the time, though, was that it was largely driven by frontend folks who'd come to the backend via NodeJS buying (especially) MongoDB's marketing hype. There was a real "finally, all those barriers the backend folks had for no reason whatsoever are gone and this is easy now—better, even, you dinosaur, have you seen the marketing, it makes it so clear that this is the future—so I can be full-stack without having to learn much!" vibe to the whole thing. But maybe that's just what I happened to see and that wasn't really the main cause of that going as far as it did.
Good point, that one was a big mess.
> The NoSQL for no reason fad came with horrible performance and some very bad data losses.
100% agreed. My perception at the time, though, was that it was largely driven by frontend folks who'd come to the backend via NodeJS buying (especially) MongoDB's marketing hype. There was a real "finally, all those barriers the backend folks had for no reason whatsoever are gone and this is easy now—better, even, you dinosaur, have you seen the marketing, it makes it so clear that this is the future—so I can be full-stack without having to learn much!" vibe to the whole thing. But maybe that's just what I happened to see and that wasn't really the main cause of that going as far as it did.