Re:What’s so exciting about Postgres?
by spacemanmatt on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:13AM
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I have been working with a guy who constantly avoids popular libraries. Constantly. And his product is constantly more accurate (factored, few bugs) and then he can document it without referring to any outside sources. It's pretty good discipline to write things yourself and only grow into libraries when you have proven you know what you need.
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Re:What’s so exciting about Postgres?
by noir_lord on Saturday October 31, 2020 @07:53AM
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That is where the nuance lies, in not reaching immediately for a library when you have a problem, explore the problem until you understand the solution then you know if the library is a good fit or not.
Half my battles with my team are them wanting to pull in dependencies, sometimes it's crazy like a wrapper dependency to pull in a different dependency when it's simpler to just pull in the indirect dependency and use it directly.
It's very much a thing that comes from experience though, when you've been bitten by upstream enough to be a little circumspect about it.