[ysavir]

I worked for a short while at a place that tried following a similar dogma. Hiring was incredibly difficult, as was retaining people (such as myself). Writing business logic in code instead of DB functions is much more approachable than keeping it in the DB.

[__jem]

There's also a real friction here with modern devops tooling. We have great off the shelf patterns now for doing blue/green deployments, monitoring, etc. Having to run a migration every time you want to update some business logic feels a lot worse even if it has some marginal benefits in terms of single source of truth.

[leemac]

I spent the better half of a decade trying to rid us of the business logic in the database. At some point, the hole was too deep as we had stored procedures calling each other, such a mess. I could go on and on but also found hiring difficult, we were a small team so a database-only developer was a hard pill to swallow.

I eventually left. We pivoted to a new product and leadership agreed the old system was legacy to remain untouched. Eventually this thinking changed and the old product was to be integrated with the new. Sprocs were back baby! My battle was lost, I was done.