Ask HN: Is there server-side software that we are missing in 2018?

It seems like there are so many choices in each category that there's nothing left to do.

I mean things like RDBMS, NoSQL databases, time-series databases, key-value stores, message queue, web servers.

I remember many years ago if you were building something you'd notice the missing solutions and tools because there were things you couldn't do easily (like lightweight application-level caching before redis/memcached popularity).

Nowadays it seems like there's nothing missing.

I'm still waiting for a rock-solid scalable open source graph database in the mold of the Freebase database engine or the amazing graph database that Facebook have built for themselves. I'm very excited about dgraph as an option here but I think it's still an area that is very open for new entrants.

> Nowadays it seems like there's nothing missing.

There's lots of things missing. There's just nothing missing in established categories. Why would there be?

Start your own category, create software for it, then convince everyone that the category is important.

Some of the biggest advancements in recent years have come less from technological breakthroughs, and more from improvements in designs and abstractions. Tools like Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and even AWS, while impressive technically, are breakthroughs because they improved developer efficiency. They also weren't "needed" until they were built, and have allowed many developers to work on broader parts of the stack.

Also, today's tech solves today's problems.

Before storing data we should have a good do not track / privacy respecting software for the data we store.