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I do like the article but it sounds like they’re in over their heads, this whole (very risky) project could have been avoided if they just brought in someone that knew what they were doing.

> Clocks are important – don’t lock down your VPC so much that NTP stops working.

> Automatically generating database indexes on application startup is probably a bad idea.

> Database management is important and hard – and we’d rather not be doing it ourselves.

This is true of any database infrastructure with redundancy/scalability requirements.

What they did was take a technical problem and solve it by buying an off the shelf solution. Which is fine, of course, but I’m a bit surprised by the reaction here on HN.