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The vast majority of work on web apps is probably writing CRUD controller methods, proxies to upstream services, or React components. It’s like saying CSS transitions are vital; they aren’t, but probably affect the user experience for the average Joe just as much if not more than a phantom read.

At that level of depth you just hand it over to the CSS champ or the DB champ.

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>At that level of depth you just hand it over to the CSS champ or the DB champ.

Developers are blaming other developers for not knowing everything they do because businesses forced them to learn everything (Fullstack), but that's actually a bad arrangement and somehow the solution is to just punish the developers more rather than hiring DBAs.

> >At that level of depth you just hand it over to the CSS champ or the DB champ.

> Developers are blaming other developers for not knowing everything they do because businesses forced them to learn everything (Fullstack), but that's actually a bad arrangement and somehow the solution is to just punish the developers more rather than hiring DBAs.

If the organization views developers as cogs or something like a software assembly line, the desire for interchangeable, unspecialized workers seems like a natural consequence.

Sure, as long as the developer knows what they don't know. Race conditions usually don't fall into that category (and neither do potential UX improvements actually).

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