SMRTR ProgrammingMay 11, 2026Hacker News

CRUD Is Broken

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Standard CRUD apps built on relational databases carry hidden inefficiencies — dual sources of truth, complex locking, poor observability, and near-impossible testing. Using a food distribution platform as a case study, the author argues that treating an append-only event log as the core source of truth (not the database) eliminates these problems, simplifies real-time systems, and unlocks trivial debugging and testing through event replay.

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