Stop thinking of your tech stack as a menu where you pick one thing.

Think of it as a Russian nesting doll:

APIs = the language

Webhooks = the nervous system

Automation = the muscle

Databases = the memory

Interfaces = the skin

Your webhook fires an automation.

Your automation queries a database.

Your interface wraps the whole thing.

It's not "API vs. Database."

It's architecture. It's depth.

They're meant to stack.