Was having a conversation with a dev friend and he said, in every tech implementation, we are more or less doing CRUD operations at fundamental level.

To which, I agree with as there are three layers to tech

1. Data
2. Front end where the data is rendered
3. APIs to perform CRUD on data

Want to understand community's thoughts on this..

Yes, but no, but yes.

There's injection of business policy and rules that happens on every implementation or integration. So yes, you're making a new crud interface, but no it's not the same service, but yes it's the same model or schema.

Everything working on top of the http has to perform a crud in the end. I mean theres a bunch of specialist methods but the main ones really are read data, send data, update data and delete data

I agree that every materialization of CPU results can be considered "data", but how would the programming of CPU processes and algorithms fit in those categories?

If we count a turing machine as CRUD, then yeah sure. Otherwise, a reasonable amount of interesting stuff is about transforming data. Reasoning about it.

Depends on how much you want to oversimplify things.

There are tons of tech where the model doesn't fit. There is no front end and no APIs, e.g. where behaviour is the code objective, such as in motor control circuits.

@kamen lol a lot of simplification done here.

@atheist @JsonBoa @sariel Yes, I agree on transforming data. But major startups these are doing nothing but CRUD.

@Fast-Nop That's a new perspective and I like it.

@Floydimus I think a lot of companies in general just do CRUD in one form or another, a lot of software is about data entry and management.

@atheist Data is new oil.

One of the largest companies in India and the owner is Asia's richest person, is an Oil tycoon.

Now he stepped into Tech ecosystem and named the company as Jio.

A friend works there very close to the owner and he said the reason for naming the company Jio is that the word is mirror of Oil.

Ambani filthy rich and is minting money. You can web search about him to know more.

@Floydimus I'll check it out. I find it fascinating how many companies *have* a lot of data but don't necessarily know what to *do* with the data. Be interesting to see where a company like that sits.

@Floydimus that's disappointing but totally makes sense.

Startups used to invent new cool shit. Sounds like it's just another rubber-stamp corporate grind machine.

@sariel I think the thing is, you can do a lot of cool stuff with just CRUD. AirBnB is little more than CRUD, I would say. There's other stuff, but CRUD is the majority of user interaction.

@atheist yes. A lot of companies have ton of data and they just use it for advertisements.

They promised to use it for better experience and they failed.

@sariel welcome to the machine.