Cryogenic Storage: A Developer's Guide (Yes...

Why programmers should care about liquid nitrogen dewars Hear me out. You're building a biotech SaaS platform. Your users manage IVF labs. They need inventory systems tracking samples in liquid nitrogen storage dewars. You assume it's straightforward: database table, foreign keys, done. It's not. The data model that breaks everything -- This seems logical CREATE TABLE samples ( id UUID PRIMARY KEY, patient_id UUID REFERENCES patients(id), location TEXT -- "Dewar 3, Canister 2, Cane 5, Position 3