Why developers should put the database first [Video]

Data is the heart of the user experience, so shouldn’t developers start there? SQLite, NoSQL databases, and abstractions like Neurelo make that far easier to do.

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Developers of a certain age are used to beginning their application development journey by choosing an operating system. Younger developers, by contrast, might start by picking a cloud. One of the most respected voices in tech suggests a different starting point, one that focuses the attention on arguably the most important component of the application stack: the database. As luminary Kelsey Hightower writes, “Early on I made the mistake of only focusing on operating systems and ignored what I now consider the most important element of computing: data.”

He’s not alone. Gatsby.js Founder Kyle Mathews has reachedsimilar conclusions: “I’ve shifted 100% to [database]-first when prototyping.” In a world where data is the heart of the user experience, it makes sense to take …