Importance of Database in Backend engineering

The Great Backend Engineering (GBE) is Masteringbackend's official podcast.

Raul Junco & I jumped on a call to discuss the importance of Databases for Backend engineers.

Here's what we discussed

• - Why mastering databases is important
• - What are the most common mistakes backend engineers make with databases
• - How database experience saved the day
• - How do you see the role of databases evolving in the next five years
• - Advice for new backend engineers.

We discussed topics such as:

• - Modeling Databases
• - Normalization
• - Database Indexing
• - Schema naming
• - Database Security
• - Backups and Restores
• - SQL
• - No-SQL
• - and more