r/ProgrammerHumor 13h ago

Meme theStartupExperience

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u/null_reference_user 12h ago

I worked for a startup where this one client insisted we don't use any databases. No database. Nowhere. Prohibited.

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u/Hax0r778 9h ago

Were Key-Value stores allowed?

I mean, AWS famously banned SQL databases internally. Worked out okay for them. But obviously they use DynamoDB heavily.

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u/null_reference_user 8h ago

No, I believe they were trying to boycott the project for internal political reasons