> Most large companies are working on honest-to-god SPAs.
Most devs don't work at large companies, at least not tech oriented large companies. I'm almost certain most projects don't come out from such companies either, statistically.
In fact, most projects are not SPA, nor using any kind of AI, Big Data, or another buzzword.
So I don't think that's it.
I think that large companies are just the loudest, also creating/promoting popular FOSS projects, and they have great engineers that are on many social networkd, including HN, or write famous blogs.
And so people have the impression that you need an SPA into a docker mix among other microservices each horizontally scaled in the cloud, monitored using an observability framework, using a big data pipeline for processing things they will store in their NoSQL sharded DB accessible through a GraphQL Api.
Because Jack working at GAFAM for $500k has the time, env and will to sing about it, but Juan working in a Madrid bank is just spending his company time fixing the Tomcat server quietly.
It's not as if all of them are working on a SPA or the backend of a SPA.
On the other side, the long tail of devs working in medium and small companies are probably working on both a frontend and a backend. This is especially true when there are one or two developers in all the company, when the company business is selling some service or physical product and software is a cost and not the source of income. And a medium company in the USA is a large one in many countries, a small one a medium one.
So the sum of devs in the long tail can be much larger than the sum of the devs in the top companies.
Fixed it with "at least not large tech oriented" because banks, supermarkets, the media industry, the entertainment industry, etc. employ a ton of devs, but they won't likely use Kubernatis for most of their stack.
Most devs don't work at large companies, at least not tech oriented large companies. I'm almost certain most projects don't come out from such companies either, statistically.
In fact, most projects are not SPA, nor using any kind of AI, Big Data, or another buzzword.
So I don't think that's it.
I think that large companies are just the loudest, also creating/promoting popular FOSS projects, and they have great engineers that are on many social networkd, including HN, or write famous blogs.
And so people have the impression that you need an SPA into a docker mix among other microservices each horizontally scaled in the cloud, monitored using an observability framework, using a big data pipeline for processing things they will store in their NoSQL sharded DB accessible through a GraphQL Api.
Because Jack working at GAFAM for $500k has the time, env and will to sing about it, but Juan working in a Madrid bank is just spending his company time fixing the Tomcat server quietly.