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Discussion on: "Just make something" is not the best advice

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Alex Janke

What kind of scope are you thinking about for a project?

As a fullstack you should be really comfortable with databases and their design. What helped a lot for me was to draw the database layout on a whiteboard/paper/online. I still do it before touching any new database, just to see the bigger picture and potentially notice errors early.

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Mathew Chan

When I quote "just make something", I mean people who literally mean it that way to encourage people to build some weeklong template project. Look, I've worked with NoSQL in both work and personal projects now, so I've completely forgotten denormalization was a thing when I was asked on the spot about read optimization.