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raverbashingyesterday at 3:54 PM1 replyview on HN

No

They have the time to write SQL queries in their code

They don't have time to (or better, shouldn't) materialize them as a stored function in the DB

"Oh but your CI/CD should automatically..." Let me stop right there

The time they spend with this can be better used to ship and to improve their SW to customers, not with yak shaving


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traceroute66yesterday at 3:56 PM

> They don't have time to ...

Which is why they end up spending time on mea-culpa "we take your data security seriously, but clearly not seriously enough" emails when they inevitably get pwned by a completely predictable and avoidable SQL injection attack.

The sort of startups you describe are jokes that barley take security seriously, let alone know what a pen-test or code audit is, let alone actually do them on a regular basis.

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