#software-engineering

The moment your relational schema starts fighting you is the moment you should have already learned Neo4j

Most developers reach for Postgres by default, and most of the time that's exactly right. But there's a class of problems where relational databases don't just underperform — they actively work against you. Graph databases exist for those problems.

Not because it's trendy — because it's boring in exactly the right ways

Everyone reaches for Python or Node when they're starting something new. But Go has been slowly, quietly winning the backend war — and if you're building a product that needs to scale without a DevOps team, it deserves a serious look.