Why developers should put the database first

Developers of a certain age are used to beginning their application development journey by choosing an operating system. Younger developers, by contrast, might start by picking a cloud. One of the most respected voices in tech suggests a different starting point, one that focuses the attention on arguably the most important component of the application stack: the database. As luminary Kelsey Hightower writes, “Early on I made the mistake of only focusing on operating systems and ignored …

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