It comes with experience, but also with more senior devs explaining it to you. Seing someone use firebase to save paiements, then recompute a total from a coll

It comes with experience, but also with more senior devs explaining it to you. Seing someone use firebase to save paiements, then recompute a total from a collection, and as a consequence having its system explodes with less than one session per second, means everybody in the team drank the « let’s use this nosql google shiny tech, it’s so cool » cool aid. Even one conversation with any senior dev having some kind of experience with backend development would have asked about expected load, types of queries, data model, etc. And concluded that storing paiements was probably the least interesting scenario for using a tech like firebase.