Databases Were Not Designed For This
The post defines defensive databases as systems designed to protect data from buggy, noisy, or autonomous applications through safeguards such as idempotency, auditability, soft deletes, controlled writes, and strict permissions. As AI agents and distributed services generate more unpredictable traffic, data stores must actively preserve integrity rather than assuming every client behave...
https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/defensive-databases
The post defines defensive databases as systems designed to protect data from buggy, noisy, or autonomous applications through safeguards such as idempotency, auditability, soft deletes, controlled writes, and strict permissions. As AI agents and distributed services generate more unpredictable traffic, data stores must actively preserve integrity rather than assuming every client behave...
https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/defensive-databases
Arpit Bhayani
Databases Were Not Designed For This
There is an implicit contract at the foundation of every database architecture decision you have ever made. You probably never wrote it down. Nobody does. It just… existed.