CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.

Didn't server industry and technology get a little.. stale?

I mean, just look at similar industries
For example - mobile phones, they are everywhere now and each year we get new technology, the new big thing and whatnot.

Other example - gaming, VR came up moderately recently to a usable state, we got a great influx of flexible languages like C#, Java etc.
New engines to build games on top of, new graphical apis like Vulkan and whatnot.

..and Servers? It feels like the last big thing (and makes me feel like the only one) was Cloud Storage.

wdyt?

you're wrong :)

Virtualization has gone a long way. Pet servers are a thing of the past. We now have cattle dominating the industry, with Docker, Kubernetes and whatnot. We have cloud computing taken to a new level, with cloud databases that have no particular identifiable server (AWS Aurora or Google BigQuery), or cloud app engines (AWS Lambda). It's all serverless. I'd say that's big.

AI is also a big thing, with servers reacting by focusing more and more on stream processors with either loads of GPUs (old, slow, inefficient) or with ASICs called TPUs. Be amazed, and scared.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And just look at the world of AI. In just 1 year things that seemed impossible become old and forgotten. It's moving at a crazy fast rate, hardware and software-wise. Faster than ever before.

servers don't get upgrades cause we have hit the limit of what can be done with them which is why attention is being focused on quantum computers and ASICs

What was the big thing in mobile phones last 5years?
Bigger screen?
Fingerprint reader?

The notch?

Hyperconverged

@2nd2NULL fast IO and precompiled neural networks.

@AndSoWeCode Most of what you just listed sounds like software to me, not servers.

Also notice how most of the things you've mentioned are also Cloud-related.

@JJonekK if you reduce servers to their hardware there won't be much innovation. There's only memory, CPU, storage and network speed. Not much you can hype about.

Of course servers are getting faster and (what I think is one of the big improvements) cheaper. But there can't be more than that, nothing a manager or the public media will be interested in.

@wtho I see, maybe you are right.
I'm not a server expert, I do what I have to do with my linux-based webserver and that's where my expertise ends.

@JJonekK well, then you can reduce the whole thing even more then. We didn't achieve anything in the last 50 years because it's still the same material used in computers.

@AndSoWeCode You are thinking in terms of hardware only, VR, Vulkan etc is hardly hardware - especially since VR been there for ages, just not on such scale.