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Amazing read showing what a single engineer can do when you actually care about your work. Loved the post because it also showcased what the real world looks like. A balance of planning and hacking. Some decisions were data driven, while others were more intuitive. Diving deep into some issues, while letting go of others never to understand the root cause. This is what the real world looks like. And lastly, another signal that Postgres is likely going to solve all your problems unless you have really big data.

When I read the title, I was thinking the article would discuss how everyone uses and interacts with it through centralized services;. This is true as both a user (etherscan.io, opensea.io) or a developer (infura.io). I agree with Nate’s comment that ethereum contracts are indeed public and immutable. Whether an individual chooses to sync a node, inspect the code and understand what functions are public and which can be run only by the contract owner to modify state, it is up to them. ...