Also an old timer. I’ve gone from mostly complex app and no DB logic to mostly heavily optimised DB and lots of procs. They protect the DB, make carefully crafted interfaces available and allow changes to the implementation.
Except for eg infinitely scalable cloud data stores like Google’s, or for ML where it’s just massive data and you need a dumb-ish store of many GB of parquet.
Except for eg infinitely scalable cloud data stores like Google’s, or for ML where it’s just massive data and you need a dumb-ish store of many GB of parquet.