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I’ve heard stuff like this from supposedly senior people - if we use mongo we can just store anything, we don’t need to think about a schema (also you can only
by formerly_proven 2y ago
I’ve heard stuff like this from supposedly senior people - if we use mongo we can just store anything, we don’t need to think about a schema (also you can only store short strings in an SQL database)
- Vosporos 2y agoGood Lord the level of incompetence is terrifying
- stogot 2y agoMost people dontgain competence until they learn from their mistakes
- croes 2y agoRelated >Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41268803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41268803
- j45 2y agoIf we don’t think about it now we’ll really have to think about it way more later.
- markoman 2y agoHence, the birth of the dreaded 'technical debt'.
- hyper_cube 2y agoBut typically, if you do spend some time to think about schema, and relationships, you only have to spend a small amount of time, and map that into the appropriate place, and then usually you don't have to mess with it again. It's worth the investment.