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		wodenokoto on Sept 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Data Science Manifesto (2020) I don't know what the author thought, but to me it sounds like adding layer for the purpose of adding layers. E.g, Your data pipeline shouldn't be doing a SQL query. It should be asking an API to do the query for you.

TeMPOraL on Sept 18, 2023 [–]

Which is funny, because SQL is an API. Security notwithstanding, it's often better than whatever API you can throw in front of it for the sake of "clean architecture" or whatever.

pvdoom on Sept 19, 2023 | [–]

Hell, you could argue that SQL directly is clean architecture, and adding APIs is making it less clean and more complicated.

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