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This is by design, the idea is that scaling your application layer is easy but scaling your storage/db layer is not
Hence make the storage dumb and have the application do the joins and now your app scales right up
(But tbh I agree a lot of applications don’t reach the scale required to benefit from this)
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This is by design, the idea is that scaling your application layer is easy but scaling your storage/db layer is not
Hence make the storage dumb and have the application do the joins and now your app scales right up
(But tbh I agree a lot of applications don’t reach the scale required to benefit from this)