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If you're using Postgres and want to get something done today, use PostgREST:

https://postgrest.com/en/v4.4/

It is the fastest, leanest, and most powerful way to interface to postgres with an API.

I've been using Python for 25 years an can tell you with certainty that Django is a slow, leaky, autocommit-infested, memory hogging pile of crap with a degenerate half-ORM that cannot model even the simplest aggregates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxL9MnWlCwo

Learn SQL and do it right.



This is the exact thing everybody seems to be looking for. Create the DB, get an API out of it, polish it off with a frontend framework.

Why hasn't this taken over the world by storm? What's the catch?


The coaching gap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc

People early in their career thinking SQL is something UNIX greybeards did in ancient times, and which is not necessary anymore.


For the API server, unfortunately we don't have better magic frameworks yet. Here I have listed pros and cons of couple of frameworks, and mentioned wishlist for an ideal API REST JSON server

https://github.com/RestyaPlatform/board/issues/1250


Is there any resource that you suggest to get good at learning sql? I am a django developer and have relied on the orm up until now. I know the basics of SQL and databases but I still won't feel too comfortable doing without ORM. Thanks


upvoting for Django being djunky




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