The cloud is the database
In the first chapter, I told the story of my first wow moment when I realized that we could run our presentation layer entirely from the edge with no servers. From that point on, I wanted to achieve the same level of scalability for the rest of the layers as well. Let's start this chapter with a continuation of that story.
Like many of you, for a significant chunk of my career, I implemented systems that needed to be database agnostic. The relational database was the standard, but we had to support all the various flavors, such as Oracle, MySQL, in-memory databases for testing, and so forth. Object relational mapping tools, such as Hibernate, were a necessity. We built large relational models, crammed the database ...
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