Why Developers Should Put The Database First
InfoWorld, Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
Data is the heart of the user experience, so shouldn't developers start there? SQLite, NoSQL databases, and abstractions like Neurelo make that far easier to do.
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 what I now consider the most important element of computing: data.'