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A lot of my backend career has been essentially Greenspun's 10th Law: Any sufficiently complicated REST or GraphQL API contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified
by camgunz 3y ago
A lot of my backend career has been essentially Greenspun's 10th Law: Any sufficiently complicated REST or GraphQL API contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of SQL.
SQL is a legendary language, it's powerful enough to build entire APIs out of (check out PostGraphile, PostgREST, and Hasura) but also somehow simple enough that non-technical business analysts can use it. It's definitely worth spending time on.