SurrealDB: The "One-Size-Fits-All" Database for Lazy Developers (Part 1)

* Intro: * We need to talk about your "Modern Stack" Let’s be real for a second. We’ve all been there: You have a "simple" project idea. Two hours later, you’re staring at a Docker Compose file with PostgreSQL, Redis for caching, Neo4j because "graphs are cool," and a Node.js backend just to move JSON from A to B. Why are we doing this to ourselves? I’m a medior dev. I’ve reached the point in my career where I’m too tired to write the same CRUD boilerplate for the 100th time. I just want to build things that work. And that’s when I stumbled upon SurrealDB . What is SurrealDB? (Besides a cool name) Imagine if SQL, MongoDB, and GraphQL had a baby, and then that baby was raised by Firebase but grew up to be actually flexible. SurrealDB is a multi-model database. It doesn't care if you want documents, relational tables, or complex graph structures. It just says: "Sure, why not both?" Why you (as a lazy dev) should care: The "Backend Killer" (No, seriously): SurrealDB has built-in Row-Level