The security aspects (from an attack surface perspective) are APPALLING.

Given that every Tom, Dick, and Harry on the PLANET can potentially see the DB and try to...

Rule 1: Dr. House's rule of users: Everybody lies.
Rule 2: Constants aren't.
Rule 3: Even laws of nature aren't guaranteed to stay the same
Rule 4: EAV sucks, but...

The more things change...sigh.

"Full stack developer" = "Jack of all trades, master of none"

I used to do our email server, our networking, our backup and disaster...

As a Lone Wolf developer I don't have the luxury of code reviews, either on the application front end or SQL backend. I also don't have much in the way...

When articles like this come up (i.e. "this feature sucks at scale") I shake my head.

First, why weren't they testing the feature at scale?

But more...

Call me cynical but I have to wonder how much of that huge cost is simply bringing security up to where it should have been in the first place (both the...

I once had a private hobby project where I wanted to create a database to automate creation of D&D scenarios.

The requirements (that apply to this discussion) were: