alt Hacker NewsIt reminds of people who use ORMs, never pop the hood to analyze the queries, indexes, etc - then decide it's the database that's the problem.
It reminds of people who use ORMs, never pop the hood to analyze the queries, indexes, etc - then decide it's the database that's the problem.
There are many good reasons why the industry largely moved away from having DBAs as a specialist position. But one downside I've seen is that it's increasingly common to have teams decide to just switch platforms without fully exploring whether that's really necessary.
I'm not really surprised. Data storage and data access technology is a pretty large subject all by itself, and a "jack of all, master of none" developer might never develop the expertise needed to properly optimize a database.