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 over time

I also built a small dashboard in the browser to fetch wallet balance and recent transactions. Moving from scripts to something visual made the flow of data much clearer

Had a session with Solana DevRel as well where we discussed Anchor validators and PDAs. That helped connect some of the concepts around how programs actually manage data on chain

Still early but things are starting to click. Planning to go deeper into Anchor and understand how to structure programs better