The problem with multi-model databases: Treating everything as a Document.
Ten years ago, the "database-per-microservice" / polyglot persistence model was the right way to build. But today, the bottleneck isn't the database engine —> it's the glue. What is the "ETL Tax"? The ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Tax is the hidden, compounding cost of moving data between specialized databases in a microservice/polyglot architecture. When your data is fractured across...
RDX: Is "Docs as Data" the future over MDX?
Hey everyone, I’ve been playing around with RDX (Reactive Document eXpressions) recently and wanted to see what the community thinks about it. For context: MDX is amazing, but because it allows arbitrary JavaScript execution, it’s a massive security risk if you want to allow untrusted users to write content. RDX takes a different approach: it uses the same familiar JSX-style syntax (<Notice...