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Eight months of JSON as a database: the bill came due on slug identity, not read latency
A 1,699-record Next.js site ran on flat files for eight months without paging anyone. What failed was not read speed but a derived primary key that quietly hid real records.
Publishers:dev.to
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption14
- Hype gap−6
- Incentives32
- Confidence46