It's interesting to watch solutions and anti-patterns repeat in history ("the time-series of Reality"). Structuring data is an art and a skill. Perhaps not tau

It's interesting to watch solutions and anti-patterns repeat in history ("the time-series of Reality"). Structuring data is an art and a skill. Perhaps not taught very well. There is a low-cost solution: CSV, TSV, lines of text. The high-cost solution is relational structure and servers. In the middle range, with risk of expensive tooling and glaring anti-patterns, are XML and JSON. The latter can both be used simply or with grotesque opacity. A some point, feeding the monster becomes a main activity of the village. At which point, the villagers elect a new monster with their shovels and pitchforks.