A few early takeaways from learning Solana

I’ve been exploring Solana for the past few days and a few things stood out pretty quickly No traditional database everything revolves around accounts Reads happen through RPC calls not queries Writes are transactions not simple updates Access control is handled by signatures not roles or middleware The biggest shift so far has been adjusting to the accounts model. Coming from a typical backend mindset it forces you to think differently about how data is stored who owns it and how state changes