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Re:What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad by ericmcer on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:27AM (#32521383)
It depends, if it has a bunch of nested loops and easily abstracted code but it works sure, who cares. If someone decides to store JSON as a string in the db that will work and deliver business value, but 8 months later when you want to query information in that JSON string you have a very difficult/dangerous migration due to someone just "making it work".

This philosophy less relevant in larger companies with more engineers also.

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Re:What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad by pjmlp on Friday August 19, 2022 @11:04AM (#32521889)
One of the traits of seniority is to understand what that "it depends" means in reality.
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Re:What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Friday August 19, 2022 @04:51PM (#32525764)
Do you know of any RDBMS's that can't take a text column and treat it as BSON?

I get your point, I just question the specific example.

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