Comment by threeseed
3 years ago
> I'm glad this is becoming conventional wisdom
It's not though. You're just seeing the most popular opinion on HN.
In reality it is nuanced like most real-world tech decisions are. Some use cases necessitate a distributed or sharded database, some work better with a single server and some are simply going to outsource the problem to some vendor.
> outsource the problem to some vendor
At least that way you can be certain of failure.
Exactly. The HN crowd is obsessed with minimalism and reducing "bloat".
It has become a cult, where availability and scale requirements are apparently fiction. "You are not FAANG, you don't have these requirements."