In our recent blog post Databases are legacy. It's time to rethink data storage and usage, we explored the current landscape and the need to rethink how we deal with data, dropping the legacy definition of a database and instead focusing on the concept of a developer data platform. Let me recap the elements of a developer data platform.
Data is the lifeblood of modern applications, powering rich and diverse user experiences. We rely on these applications in our daily life to do everything from managing logistics, finances, shopping needs, and even the most mundane and basic of tasks.
However, as much as these modern applications have become data-dependent, the supporting data infrastructure hasn't evolved to support these rich data needs. Today's applications still rely on "databases" in the classical sense, a concept designed in the 1970s and 1980s.