https://latini.dev/tags/databases/Recent content in Databases on F. Latini - IT EngineerHugoenThu, 22 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://latini.dev/posts/your-platform-stops-at-the-database/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://latini.dev/posts/your-platform-stops-at-the-database/<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - Most internal platforms will get a stateless service to production in an afternoon and then hand you a ticket form the moment you ask for a database. Platform teams pave the half that is cheap to get wrong, because a stateless mistake is undone by a redeploy and a data mistake is not undone at all. So the riskiest part of every service, the part where the mistakes are permanent, is the part with no road: provisioned by hand, accessed with a shared password, migrated by whoever is brave, and protected by backups nobody has ever restored. &ldquo;We use a managed database&rdquo; does not fix this, because the provider manages the engine and nothing about how your teams use it. Pave the data road the same way you paved the rest: a database from the template, access by identity, schema migrations run as deploys, restores as a drilled self-service command with a measured time, and a written line between what the platform owns and what the team owns.</p>