White Blue 3/4/2026

Business logic does not (usually) belong in the database

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The article details the author's experience moving business logic into database stored procedures for performance, only to face deployment, debugging, and testing challenges. It explains why application servers, not databases, are the better place for business logic, citing network bottlenecks and the differing cost/scale profiles of app vs. database servers.

Business logic does not (usually) belong in the database

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