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by jerzyt 1003 days ago
Yeah, I'd expand on the "API over DBs" based on my experience. I could make it nest much deeper: DBs over Excel spreadsheets, and Excel spreadsheets over PDFs or scraped HTMLs, yada, yada, yada. But before I waste any time creating an API, my client wants to know if the project is even viable.