Foundations of Databases
Explore the foundations of databases critical for scalable backend development using Go. Understand how to select the right database type, design efficient schemas, optimize queries, and implement caching to enhance data handling performance and scalability.
Databases are an integral part of modern back-end development. They allow applications to store and retrieve data efficiently and provide powerful querying capabilities. However, interacting with databases requires careful consideration and planning to ensure efficiency, scalability, latency, and performance. While we will not take a deep dive into database internals and system design choices revolving normalization of relational databases or principles of sharding and replication, this lesson will aim to simply highlight the key pointers that we need to consider in our learning journey.
Choosing the right database
The first decision that developers need to make when interacting with databases is choosing the right database for their application. Choosing the right database depends on several factors, including the nature of the data, whether user behavior is predominantly to read or write, the required ...