We talk about the Pros and Cons of using a database directly vs using an abstraction layer, common mistakes, optimistic concurrency, and a nice tangent into programming concurrency models to top it off.

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Panel * AJ ONeal * Aimee Knight * Charles Max Wood * Steve Edwards

Special Guest * Valeri Karpov

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Aimee * The Cloud Girl Sketch Notes

AJ * GraphQurl * APC UPS with USB * CyberPower UPS * Google Lighthouse overstep * Frog Chess * WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Chuck * http://podcastgrowthsummit.co/ * http://podcastplaybook.co/ * mostvaluable.dev * Stormlight Archive

Valeri Karpov * https://masteringjs.io/ebooks/mastering-mongoose-javascript-jabber * https://www.npmjs.com/package/archetype * amazon.com/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson

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Special Guest: Valeri Karpov.