alt Hacker NewsThe point is really that you can only evaluate which of alternatives is better once you have working product with data big enough - else it's just basically following trends and hoping your barely informed decision won't be wrong.
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SOLAR_FIELDS • today at 1:12 AM
Postgres is widely used enough with enough engineering company blog posts that the vast majority of NotPostgres requests already have a blog post that either demonstrates that pg falls over at the scale that’s being planned for or it doesn’t.
If they don’t, the trade off for NotPostgres is such that it’s justifiable to force the engineer to run their own benchmarks before they are allowed to use NotPostgres
Agree to disagree here. I see a world where developers need to think about (reasonable) scale from day one, or at least very early. We’ve been seeing this play out at ClickHouse - the need for purpose-built OLAP is reducing from years to months. Also integration with ClickHouse is few weeks of effort for potentially significantly faster performance for analytics.