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haabe
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The worst mistake I made was using json files as a simple database.

The project was to be delivered the day before it was even ordered, so I had to take shortcuts.

I totally underestimated the popularity of the project, so all that file reading and writing made the server slow and sluggish. It also being submitted on a shared host, made it even worse.

In the end the host shut it down. I don't recall, but I guess I had to add that database support after all, the project being that popular...

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  • 1
    Worst case I can remember. I probably done worse, and totally suppressed it!
  • 8
    and today its normal and called couchDB... trolol.
    thanks for sharing :)
  • 16
    FirstWorldProgrammerProblems: My quick script became too popular
  • 1
    NoSQL? Firebases DB can be seen as a Single JSON Object. I guess what failed was the correct data structure
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