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The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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The Front End and the Storage Engine

As the web evolved, as the evolution of the web came in and JSON and documents, really I want to deal with documents. We built it bottom up, if you will. And then, so that's one data format. But then people challenged this. People came in the 2000 era and says, wait a minute, why do I have to be really fixed to these tables? I don't know. My application has nothing to do with tables. Why are you forcing me to do tables? That's the idea of where documents came in,. Later graphs came in, later other column-based storage came in instead of row storage. All of this, it really automatically, the database became

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