Re: Large scale reliable software system

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

So, what's your advice, and is there some book / resource to get upto speed?

Thanks!

On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 10:38 AM Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> 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:
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> 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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