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braggerxyz ◴[] No.42949307[source]
> Monoliths remain pretty good

> It's very hard to beat decades of RDBMS research and improvements

> Micro-services require justification (they've increasingly just become assumed)

That is so true. I am still deploying good old .war files to full blown Java app servers backed by simple SQL databases (all clustered and stuff) with some handwritten cli tools and a Jenkins server. Shit is fast, shit scales, shit just works. It is a pleasure to work with

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1. jamaicahest ◴[] No.42960854[source]
20+ years as a professional developer and I still have to argue with coworkers on why MongoDb is a terrible fit for their data, which is clearly relational, just because said coworkers can't be bothered to learn SQL.