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h6d_100ctoday at 7:12 AM1 replyview on HN

And they were actually like that pre-LLM, in 2019, when I was implementing stuff for a car company on azure. They spent _hundreds of thousands_ on cosmosDB, for less performance than a raspberry pi running Postgres.


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jiggawattstoday at 12:51 PM

Every marketing page and just about every second documentation page goes on and on about how fantastic CosmosDB performance and scalability is. Meanwhile, the best performance I have ever managed to squeeze out of it could be generously classified as "glacial".

Whenever I read its docs I feel like I'm being gaslit.