I love making a significant scientific discovery and running blindly through the crowded halls of my early twentieth century university with a bundle of loose papers in my outstretched arms

Incredible quote!

It’s still common in lots of roles for sure, depending on the domain. In my web dev experience though I’ve worked on a handful of full stack apps with databases and every time they’re either NoSQL or SQL with an ORM and so I very rarely dealt with raw SQL.

NoSQL databases are quite popular now, and if a SQL db is used many projects will use an ORM which abstracts away direct SQL interactions. It’s still a valuable skill, but just not as necessary as it used to be if all you need are basic CRUD operations so many devs don’t bother with it.

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Personally would love a better option to self host just the server-side components to pair with a custom front-end. Currently I’m trying to reverse-engineer the polis client to understand the API calls needed to implement its functionality so I can use it in my own FE.