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by Diggsey
1812 days ago
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IME, it's the following considerations that make back-end development hard: - Fault tolerance.
- Backwards (or forwards) compatibility.
- Scalability.
- Testability.
- Everything around state (backup/restore, migration strategies, data integrity, etc.) Most other things are a one-time cost. These things are an ongoing burden to consider, but if you forget to consider them it can be devastating. Also remember: any time you give a (internal or external) customer programmatic access to something, that is an API, and APIs have huge costs to maintain. That includes when you dump your database into "data lake" for internal reporting... |
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