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The last time I had a professional task not database-involved was 2007, and that's because my role was technical marketing. When I got started in the 90s, datab
by spacemanmatt 6y ago
The last time I had a professional task not database-involved was 2007, and that's because my role was technical marketing. When I got started in the 90s, databases were weird entities you'd see in corporate IT settings but not regular embedded/consumer app development roles. Now they're common to embedded applications and ubiquitous in server applications.
- enriquto 6y agoThere is this creepy fad of shoehorning databases into all applications, even when they are not needed at all, and architecting the whole app around the database constraints. It's weird.
- spacemanmatt 6y agos/database/data, and you have actual application design spot-on. Applications are designed around the data constraints. Full stop. Or you are just pretending.
- enriquto 6y agoYes, I agree! My point is that using a "database" for storing your data is often an unnecessary abstraction, and sometimes even pernicious.
- mattashii 6y agoMost applications expect their data to be stored somewhere. To be able to give some guarantee of data consistency, correctness and persistence, that somewhere is usually a database, to alleviate the costs of needing to reinvent the wheel and inhousing the development-, education- and maintenance costs costs of such storage layer.