alt Hacker NewsYes, the nosql fad that swept the industry was nearly as insufferable as the SPA craze that followed alongside. Now everyone's back to tried and true. Most data once more sits in RDBMS and most html gets render on the server.
Us grizzled genX devs saw this coming a decade ago.
As a grizzled genX dev myself, we are in a different situation now - "nosql" (hate the term) has tremendous use cases, it's just that most people aren't creating something that requires it. It was a natural exploration of the tools, something that should be encouraged. "I knew it all along" isn't an attitude I find helpful or effective. My "grizzled genX dev" attitude is that nearly all people think they know what is going to happen or what is the best route, and they are almost always entirely wrong. We only find out by trying a bunch of things.
In other words, there are many companies currently worth $Billion+ that wouldn't have succeeded had they followed your advice. Today, with incredibly powerful infra of all types available, starting with Postgres is almost always the right step unless you know, know, better. That wasn't the case 10+ years ago.