When I started building out the back-end of my latest project, I realized its only purpose was to persist data to a NoSQL database. I had a small epiphany and decided I didn't need to build a server at all - I could just use something like Firebase to accomplish that task.

Now that I'm getting deeper into the project, I need to add in features like PDF generation. No problem! I'll use microservices for that. Well, that means I need to build a Docker container, deploy it to AWS ECS, and configure AWS API Gateway to talk to it. None of these things are what I would consider "front-end" dev work.

Back-end is surely changing, and many of the needs can be shifted to the front-end/BaaS platforms, but there's still plenty of work left! I think we'll see the back-end role transition more toward building and maintaining these microservices and possibly the business logic portions of the front-end.