The Great Backend Engineering (GBE) is Masteringbackend's official podcast.

Raul Junco & I jumped on a call to discuss the importance of Databases for Backend engineers.

Here's what we discussed

• - Why mastering databases is important


• - What are the most common mistakes backend engineers make with databases


• - How database experience saved the day


• - How do you see the role of databases evolving in the next five years


• - Advice for new backend engineers.

We discussed topics such as:

• - Modeling Databases


• - Normalization


• - Database Indexing


• - Schema naming


• - Database Security


• - Backups and Restores


• - SQL


• - No-SQL


• - and more