Importance of Database in Backend engineering

22/06/2024 59 min

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Episode Synopsis

The Great Backend Engineering (GBE) is Masteringbackend's official podcast.
Raul Junco & I jumped on a call to discuss the importance of Databases for Backend engineers.
Here's what we discussed

- Why mastering databases is important
- What are the most common mistakes backend engineers make with databases
- How database experience saved the day
- How do you see the role of databases evolving in the next five years
- Advice for new backend engineers.

We discussed topics such as:

- Modeling Databases
- Normalization
- Database Indexing
- Schema naming
- Database Security
- Backups and Restores
- SQL
- No-SQL
- and more