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• mrweasel 5y ago
  Completely agreed, sadly we’re seeing a ton of developers who are honestly more interested in getting half baked solutions out the door so they can move on to the next project. We have one customer who run a huge national project on a few MariaDB servers, one can technically run the whole thing, it’s no problem. Another customer is smaller but insist on using Hibernate, but they don’t really know how to use it, so they’ll frequently kill the database generating silly queries. Instead of accepting that may they don’t fully understand their choose stack, they try to “solve” the problem by adding things like Kubernetes and Kafka, complicating everything. Modern databases, and servers in general is capable of amazing things, but there’s a shortage of developers with the skills to utilize them.