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One qualifier worth stating plainly: opinions here are shaped by the systems we've personally maintained. A backend engineer who's run Postgres at scale will write differently about databases than one who hasn't, and we don't pretend otherwise. Pieces are reviewed by at least one contributor outside the author's primary domain before publishing, which catches most of the worst takes before they reach you.
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