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Has SQL somehow become less relevant?
by Xenoamorphous 5mo ago
Has SQL somehow become less relevant?
- rjbwork 5mo agoI would argue quite the contrary. NoSQL DBs got through their hype cycle and are now a standard part of stacks, but SQL (especially via Postgres) has re-emerged as the golden standard for the bulk of data needs.
- theshrike79 5mo agoEspecially when companies over-provision their databases. Partially because the jump from cheap-ass to mid-tier is a massive increase in capacity. Then you can offload stuff to the DB engine (as it should be), making everything more efficient, less data going between DB and App layers is good for everyone. Also you get to do cool SQL shit nobody understands and you become invaluable =)
- sjamaan 5mo ago> Also you get to do cool SQL shit nobody understands and you become invaluable =) Goddamn right!
- sgarland 5mo agoUnless your role is DB-specific, at which point people stare at you blankly as you’re raging about B+trees and sort buffers, and then ignore you when you tell them for the Nth time that they should refactor their schema.
- rconti 5mo agoI guess maybe I'm thinking of how the traditional DBA role seems to have significantly declined (at least, from where I sit). Maybe because that work is being pushed to the devs :)
- theeyescanner 5mo agoThe title is going extinct but the work remains...