Re: Large scale reliable software system

Correct. It’s a tragically wrong piece of folk wisdom that’s pretty general across web development communities.

> On Jun 26, 2023, at 21:32, Michael Nolan <htfoot(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> It's not just Ruby, dumb databases are preferred in projects like
> WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, too.
>
> Now, if it's because they're used to using MySQL, well maybe that's
> not so hard to understand. :-)
>
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 8:05 PM Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> This is a reasonable answer, but I want to offer a caveat.
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>> Likely because of the influence of the originator of Ruby on Rails, it is close to holy writ in the web development community that the database must be treated as a dumb data bucket and all business logic must be implemented in the Ruby or Python or whatever back end code.
>>
>> This heuristic is nearly always mostly wrong.
>>
>> Guyren G Howe
>> On Jun 26, 2023 at 17:48 -0700, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, wrote:
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>> On 6/26/23 16:48, B M wrote:
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>> Dear all,
>>
>> After greeting,
>>
>> I taught PostgreSQL myself and developed a small scale
>> experimentalsoftware system using PostgreSQL in the back-end.
>>
>> I would like to know your advices to develop a large scale reliable
>> software system using PostgreSQL in the back-end, through which i can
>> share the storage with the different system users where they login to
>> the system through the web application front-end with different
>> passwords and usernames , save the privacy of each user data, improve
>> overall system security and performance, achieve fast response, make
>> backups and save the stored data from loss. The system will be hosted on
>> a cloud.
>>
>>
>> https://www.djangoproject.com/
>>
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Adrian Klaver
>> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>>
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