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Re:A Poor Man's API by rmason on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:43AM (#33784726)
Did a user group presentation on Supabase, no one in the audience had ever heard of it. I came away quite impressed. Plan on building a complex API with it soon. If I was currently employed as a backend developer I'd be worried.
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Re:A Poor Man's API by cpursley on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @05:46AM (#33785946)
Don't worry, somebody still has to design all the database tables/relations, views, triggers, etc. Which means we all become better database developers, which is a very good thing.

Also, these tools can't handle certain back end logic (ie, API interactions and integrations, long running processes, etc). Which is the complex bit, anyways.

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Re:A Poor Man's API by edmundsauto on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @10:46AM (#33788976)
This just removes the need for some backend engineering, but will leave the actual hard work (schema design, etc)

More and more, developers need to add value to the business, instead of being the key holders of arcane invocations. It used to be that knowing how to use a computer was a technical skills; now it’s evolved into understanding the business.

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