We had mainframes and dumb clients; then we put more power into clients so no mainframe was needed; then we got huge services in remote servers and browsers for clients; and now the Cloud having the whole application (backend) and frontend clients (Apps and browsers), even media and games streaming services; is the circle of life. And people feeling clever saying "the Cloud is just other people machines", no idea what they think remote hosting, web APIs, websites, chat servers, THE ENTIRE INTERNET, are.
Functional is getting in fashion like it is a new thing, the new things are: flip phones, streaming services looking increasingly like cable TV; IoT like remote control and monitoring is new; social media like BBS and IRC never existed; people talking about the new concerns about privacy when the first rule of the internet was "never give real information in the internet".
One of these days people will may even realize that C is not dead and 90% of what they are using is actually written on it. XD
For years people avoided SQL putting things in front of it and leave it as back and hidden as possible, even replacing with NOSQL in clearly structured scenarios (NOSQL of course has its uses, but is no replacement for SQL) and just now realizing the SQL is actually a good way to query a database, who knew.
The circle of life, my friend, we just have to realize it, appreciate it, let it go, hakuna matata :)
The good thing about old stuff getting "new" is that we already have seen it, is like my with clothes, people say fashion is cyclic, so I'm not out of it, I'm just ahead of the next one ;)
So when people says something like SQL is old and obsolete or performance and optimization is worthless because computers are to fast nowadays, I just smile, nod and wait.
For example, I think that the golden age of slow PL is about to be over, we are hitting the end of the line of HW power, until a complete makeover, for a while SW people relied on HW people dealing with performance and we just kept worrying about the new features, bells and whistles, but HW is (in its current form) about to hit a wall of physics. So in the next years I think performance in SW will get even more important, after all you can double your HW or halve the needed resources. Old is the new, new.
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We had mainframes and dumb clients; then we put more power into clients so no mainframe was needed; then we got huge services in remote servers and browsers for clients; and now the Cloud having the whole application (backend) and frontend clients (Apps and browsers), even media and games streaming services; is the circle of life. And people feeling clever saying "the Cloud is just other people machines", no idea what they think remote hosting, web APIs, websites, chat servers, THE ENTIRE INTERNET, are.
Functional is getting in fashion like it is a new thing, the new things are: flip phones, streaming services looking increasingly like cable TV; IoT like remote control and monitoring is new; social media like BBS and IRC never existed; people talking about the new concerns about privacy when the first rule of the internet was "never give real information in the internet".
One of these days people will may even realize that C is not dead and 90% of what they are using is actually written on it. XD
For years people avoided SQL putting things in front of it and leave it as back and hidden as possible, even replacing with NOSQL in clearly structured scenarios (NOSQL of course has its uses, but is no replacement for SQL) and just now realizing the SQL is actually a good way to query a database, who knew.
The circle of life, my friend, we just have to realize it, appreciate it, let it go, hakuna matata :)
I just found out "hakuna matata" means, as Arnold Schwarzenegger said, "No problemo".
The good thing about old stuff getting "new" is that we already have seen it, is like my with clothes, people say fashion is cyclic, so I'm not out of it, I'm just ahead of the next one ;)
So when people says something like SQL is old and obsolete or performance and optimization is worthless because computers are to fast nowadays, I just smile, nod and wait.
For example, I think that the golden age of slow PL is about to be over, we are hitting the end of the line of HW power, until a complete makeover, for a while SW people relied on HW people dealing with performance and we just kept worrying about the new features, bells and whistles, but HW is (in its current form) about to hit a wall of physics. So in the next years I think performance in SW will get even more important, after all you can double your HW or halve the needed resources. Old is the new, new.