Importance of Database in Backend engineering

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

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