Why Every Backend Developer Should Master SQL — Even in the Age of ORMs
Summary: ORMs make development faster, but mastering SQL and database internals turns good backend engineers into great ones. Here’s why understanding both levels — abstraction and reality — matters. ⚙️ Context & Problem Modern web frameworks — Django, FastAPI, Spring Boot, Laravel — all encourage the use of Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs). They make it easy to map objects to tables, run queries in a few lines of code, and forget about SQL altogether. ...