- Anti-pattern #1. Using exotic databases for the wrong reasons

- Anti-pattern #2. Caching things unnecessarily

- Anti-pattern #3. Storing everything and a kitchen sink
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Most importantly, study your database (and SQL). Learn it, love it, use it, abuse it. Spending a couple of days just leafing through that Postgres manual to see what it can do will probably make you a better engineer than spending more time on the next flavor-of-the-month JavaScript framework hotness. Again.

YOUR DATABASE SKILLS ARE NOT 'GOOD TO HAVE'
https://renegadeotter.com/2023/11/12/your-database-skills-are-not-good-to-have.html