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Blog post from Sanity
The episode of the Code && Content podcast explores the advantages of using Sanity's Content Lake for managing content-driven applications, contrasting it with the burdensome experience of handling traditional databases in WordPress development. Sanity abstracts away the complexities of database management, allowing developers to focus on customizing admin dashboards and solving customer problems. With open-source technologies like the GROQ query language and Portable Text Specification, Sanity emphasizes collaboration and adoption, while the proprietary Content Lake serves as a specialized backend optimized for content. This backend supports real-time data, multiplayer editing, and offers a CDN for content queries, making it an ideal choice for developers who prioritize content management over database maintenance. Despite some viewing the closed nature of Content Lake as limiting, the podcast argues that its benefits in content editing, storage, and delivery outweigh the desire for database flexibility.