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#062 - Declaring War Against the Frontend feat. Sam Selikoff

Backend Banter

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Discussion on Programming Abstraction Levels and Testing Data Layer Functionalities

This chapter delves into the contrasts in abstraction levels in programming, illustrated with Go as a case study. It covers the utilization of low-level interfaces for SQL databases versus high-level approaches like ORMs, while underscoring the significance of seamless testing of operations such as data seeding and user creation in the data layer with a nod to the efficiency provided by frameworks like Laravel and Rails.

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