> When you have one engineer who is empowered to write SQL specifically crafted to pull the exact columns required to SSR a web view (which they are also responsible for), you don't need to spend a single second thinking about APIs or ORMs or whatever. You just need to know SQL and modern vanilla HTML/CSS/JS.
A million times yes!
> I think the end game is doing SSR of web content inside the RDBMS
That feels like one step too far for me. I think things like authorization and HTML rendering belong in a separate layer.
But I do believe that more than 90% of today's "server side code" actually belongs in the RDBMS, and I blame the weakness of SQL as the reason no one wants to do this.
A million times yes!
> I think the end game is doing SSR of web content inside the RDBMS
That feels like one step too far for me. I think things like authorization and HTML rendering belong in a separate layer.
But I do believe that more than 90% of today's "server side code" actually belongs in the RDBMS, and I blame the weakness of SQL as the reason no one wants to do this.