Breaking the rules

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1. Silvano Stralla - Rubycon 2026 Breaking the rules (with style)
5. DatoCMS is a headless CMS
6. (with an ecosystem) API
7. To manage contents
17. Schema
21. How do we store content in the DB?
22. (*)
23. (I may disappoint you)
24. I’m Silvano Stralla: I’m a software developer
25. ⏪
28. Hey, it used to build static websites. 🤗
32. Normal forms anyone?
33. Normal forms are the rules about how to organise tables in relational databases.
37. Is content stored in DatoCMS in normal form?
38. Speci fi cally, is the item_versions table in normal form?
39. Well… it depends.
40. The WordPress solution.
42. Semantic distortions are more dangerous than technical distortions.
43. The real problem.
49. Safe from the unknown unknown.
50. “The Black Swan”, chapter 9 — Nassim Nicholas Taleb “A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that the dollar value of these Black Swans, the off- model hits and potential hits I’ve just outlined, swamp the on-model risks by a factor of close to 1,000 to 1. The casino spent hundreds of millions of dollars on gambling theory and high-tech surveillance while the bulk of their risks came from outside their models.”
51. Confirmation bias: if I do what everybody does I can’t be wrong.
52. Survivorship bias: if they “made it past” the selection, they surely work
54. Learn biases, beyond the normal forms.
55. Consider the unknown unknowns beyond the known unknowns.
56. Draw many potato diagrams.