I've been wondering over the last couple years what the state of the art is on server side rendering. There seems to be a lot of energy on the FE side with react and angular, but other than dockerization, I don't hear about the same class of big FAANG shiny backend rendering tools. Even the article is just pointing out that server side exists. I'm working on setting up a small website for my wife's business and am still thinking of running Flask/gUnicorn just like I did years ago. Maybe there is something with Elixer / Erlang, but that seems niche. What should I be looking at, if I want to skill up to the new shiny in server side rendering.

I think it makes sense to just stick with what you know, unless you have good reasons not to. But since you asked (and mentioned Elixir), Phoenix live view or https://github.com/grych/drab.