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All the business web apps I've worked on that use relational databases with an ORM layer, are already modeling the world as a half-baked graph. I'm reminded of

All the business web apps I've worked on that use relational databases with an ORM layer, are already modeling the world as a half-baked graph. I'm reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule.

grandalf 11y ago
this is so true.
girvo 11y ago
Recently I forced my coworker to use a real graph data structure in a LoB app. Nearly everything I've worked on ends up being an ad-hoc graph eventually, and as they say using the right data structures is half the battle.