[brazzledazzle]

And yet many blog dbs fall over under what is ostensibly read-only loads. It could be inefficient connection reuse, shitty disks or it could be something as stupid as writing visitor data on each visit. But it's irrelevant to the main point which is that it's a blog.

This comes up every time a blog falls over that discusses or criticizes a database on HN and it's just as shallow as it ever was. Do we really expect anyone to spend significant time optimizing their blogs for load that may not ever come? We talk about "pre-optimization" and "core competency" routinely on here and then shoot the messenger when a wordpress blog using MySQL falls over that's criticizing something like MongoDB. It's irrelevant to the point of silliness.