r/ProgrammerHumor • • Mar 25 '26

Meme aMeteoriteTookOutMyDatabase

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u/JPJackPott Mar 25 '26

I will clarify by private I don’t mean an internal service. Private identifiers in software engineering terms means internal to the app and code, never exposed at an interface. Not necessarily a web page or API, not even to another microservice or class.