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Security · draft 65 of 95, not in the published book · outline v1.0.0, 2018, frozen · 66 words · the 2018 file · read and review

Strings should be banned

In 2018 this was an outline: a title and "Topics to cover and ideas". It was never in the published book, and it is shown exactly as it was left. The second edition fills it from the articles the map names.

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Topics to cover and ideas

  • Strings are not strongly typed
  • You never want a string , you want a specific type (with a very specific format/regex)
  • Strings are 4Gb monsters
  • What happens is some fields are given 100k of data (what is the impact on the back end
  • Each layer needs to validate all data that it receives and consumes
  • add link to John W article

No newsroom article answers it yet. The map row.