What major changes have happened in back end software engineering

2 points by computinglife 5 months ago

So, i have been in a hole for a while, slaving away on a ok paying enterprise solution, while my kid grew and now I want to begin catching up with a sabbatical. I wanted to ask HN about new approaches and stacks i might have missed & would like to look into them / dabble with it, with the intention of dusting up myself with a sabbatical & some exciting project in next 8-10 months & then finally work with some startups along those same lines.

I consider myself a backend engineer (used to be C++, now Java). I mainly enjoy knowing about the underlying system aspects, improving performance & the likes of it.

I havent worked on any hyperscale cloud projects at all either (I know !!)

What are the areas, which have proven themselves well in the past 15 years, which you think i must catch up on ? eg functional / async-io / serverless ? reactive ? wasm / nodejs / go & rust ? Kubernetes ? AI / ML ?

Thanks in advance

helix90 5 months ago

You should check out both Go and Rust as new languages that are excellent for back end services. If you want to explore a little more, also give Zig a try for a toy project.

  • computinglife 5 months ago

    Yes i did have them in mind. But all new developments seem to indicate Rust is faster & given Linux will also start supporting it, it sounded interesting.

    I think I will start with Rust.

    Thanks

    • server_man3000 5 months ago

      +1 for Go after a sabbatical. Its a treat