There are tons of antipatterns out there. Often the production database is completely different from anything I can or want to set up on my local machine (E.g.

There are tons of antipatterns out there. Often the production database is completely different from anything I can or want to set up on my local machine (E.g. it's a cluster of database type A, while my local dev env is a single node of type B. > But if data makes you personally uncomfortable I wouldn't say uncomfortable, simply bored. Not because I think database are bad tech, they are awesome. But we still haven't solved the impedance mismatch between programs and data, so any time you need to work with them, you spend 10% of your time on business logic and 90% on deployments, migrations, ORM and CRUD. Which is just something I'm lucky enough to be able to avoid. I don't like NoSQL either (just like I don't like dynamic typing). I don't think anyone can "avoid data" in programming, but my way of staying sane has been to avoid the web.