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Vibe Coding is Awesome - But Let's Talk Backends (Because They Still Matter)
Vibe coding. Yeah, you’ve definitely seen it, probably dabbled in it yourself. Platforms like Loveable.dev, Replit, Claude Code, and a ton of others, are changing how we think about coding. It’s like skipping the boring stuff, going straight to building something fun. UI prototyping, algorithms, slick little experiments, honestly, it feels like magic. But okay,...

How We Store Emojis in Your Database, or Why We Got Rid of the Extended String Data Type

As you may have noticed in our release history, the EXTENDED STRING data type was removed from Backendless Database almost a year ago. To be precise, it was more a merge of the STRING and EXTENDED STRING data than the removal of the latter.