unfortunately due to all this A.I noise we are drowning a lot of good things happening in tech specially around DBs
migrating services is easier if your DB supports those things and is more oriented around AP
now a lot of people just jump straight to microservices without considering what their DB can do for them, or if at times they need a relational DB, or if their use case can be served by a hybrid Db.
if you see most of the talks at Monster Scale [0]: They're around DBs