alt Hacker NewsIs that not kinda the point?
People reach for the things you mentioned wayyyyyy before they should.
Just because you want something queue shaped or search, doesn't mean you should reach for the big, specialized, expensive technology, when Postgres can already support it in your existing infrastructure up until some significant scale you often won't surpass.
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jabwd • today at 12:20 AM
The amount of redis-as-database, or X really, that I see deployed that practically make no sense is insane. I haven't run the numbers to make my following claim based on anything but my feelings, but just incompetent dev alone is probably what keeps cloud computing alive.
>People reach for the things you mentioned wayyyyyy before they should.
Most orgs are probably due for a technical reassessment. Scale that I believe would have melted postgres in the past now just runs fine. CPUs got a ton faster and memory got cheaper.
Projects that would have required a complex distributed setup 10 years ago can now be handled by a single machine. For a lot of use cases, CPUs got faster than population growth.