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The odds that that person will also understand or care about normalization, let alone the performance characteristics of their RDBMS and how their schema decisions affect it, are close to zero.

I’ve spent enough time watching devs have access to the DB that I know it’s a dead end. For a group that loves to talk about DSA, you’d think a B+tree would be second nature, and yet…

Full Stack is a lie, as is DevOps. We need to return to highly specialized roles. You want a new view? Submit your proposal to the DB team. They shot you down with a list of reasons why? Go learn everything they complained about; next time, the list won’t be so long.



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