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+1 Ideally, databases should never have internet access

• monksy 10y ago
  Tell that to frontend javascript devs who think they don't need a back end system. Without a public facing DB they're pretty much dead in the water.
  • bartread 10y ago
    The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm thinking of people who back in the 90s/early noughties didn't want to bother with a middle tier application, and instead talk directly to the database from their fat clients(1) because it was easier. (1) This, btw, is what many SPA are: fat client apps running within a browser. When I came back to web development four years ago one of the biggest surprises was how much like desktop development it had become in many ways.
• cm2187 10y ago
  If you are using one of the main cloud provider, the database they provide will almost always do. For azure at least, they protect it with a firewall that block all IPs by default. But a database with no internet access is unrealistic.