I also have a theory about this when it comes to a bit older devs (like 30+, yours i think relates to younger ones). We've entered our careers in the days of ph

I also have a theory about this when it comes to a bit older devs (like 30+, yours i think relates to younger ones). We've entered our careers in the days of php4 and mysql4 and in those days if i remember correctly, mysql did not have all these nice features postgres has today and also the query planner was not that powerful, joins indeed were painful. We did not have access to databases like Oracle so this is where the culture of fat middle layer comes from, because it was the only way. But ppl, 15 years have passed, databases are monsters now, postgres can do 1.5M tps on a single box. How many of you are working on projects with that kind of scale ...