Honestly, I really like containers for self-hosting stuff on my server. Just write a single text file describing the setup and you can always recreate it, even after nuking the server.

No dependencies suddenly going missing or different versions of the same program being required by two services.

I guess my main takeaway from this article is that many of those things (definitely not all of them) are good ideas within moderation. Then along comes the marketing department and rips the moderation apart.

Everyone forgets that "Information Technology" was just a rebrand from the more accurate "Information Systems", which was itself the less accurate rebranding of "Data Processing", which is what computers actually do. There was also the failed push by IBM for Information Communication Technology (ICT).

It's been hype cycles since the beginning.

The author forgot “big data”

We both agreed that the late 20th century – broadly, the period from the early 1990s onward for a decade or so – had mostly been one of fairly steady improvement.

Ah yes, a famously bubble-free period. /s

Talking to old-timers, and reading history, it sounds more like revolving hype cycles have been around for the whole industrial age. TBF they do touch on that timeline later and correct themselves a bit.

Some were dumber than others. Foo-as-a-service wasn't even a new concept, that's just called renting shit out!