You are making a point here, I am also wondering if development is headed in that direction.
The thing is there are repeatable things that you always need to do backend-side for every project like - authenthication, authorization, user management, containarize, ci/cd, setup an gateway proxy with TLS termination, ensure you have backups, etc. Those things can take a lot of time from the backend developers, so it might make sense that even they would leverage tools that gives them those repeatable things out of the box so they can focus on business logic.
I think there will always be needs for backend developers, but we will have services that automate some repeatable code (we already have).
I really HOPE that there will still be demand for backend devs, but my fear is that backend is the first thing that MIGHT be commoditized. I don't hope so, but I discern a trend, frontend is more and more stealing the spotlight and many devs are saying "oh don't worry about the backend, we'll just use Firebase".
We'll see, but I wouldn't be surprised if 5 or 10 years from now frontend is where it's at, and backend has become marginal. Not because I want to or because I like it, but I see the writing on the wall.
But I really do hope I'm wrong, and this "prediction" isn't going to materialize.
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You are making a point here, I am also wondering if development is headed in that direction.
The thing is there are repeatable things that you always need to do backend-side for every project like - authenthication, authorization, user management, containarize, ci/cd, setup an gateway proxy with TLS termination, ensure you have backups, etc. Those things can take a lot of time from the backend developers, so it might make sense that even they would leverage tools that gives them those repeatable things out of the box so they can focus on business logic.
I think there will always be needs for backend developers, but we will have services that automate some repeatable code (we already have).
I really HOPE that there will still be demand for backend devs, but my fear is that backend is the first thing that MIGHT be commoditized. I don't hope so, but I discern a trend, frontend is more and more stealing the spotlight and many devs are saying "oh don't worry about the backend, we'll just use Firebase".
We'll see, but I wouldn't be surprised if 5 or 10 years from now frontend is where it's at, and backend has become marginal. Not because I want to or because I like it, but I see the writing on the wall.
But I really do hope I'm wrong, and this "prediction" isn't going to materialize.