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One of the tough lessons of my years as a developer is many developers love to adopt Google scale solutions and Google practices because they’re from Google and they come with prestige and a feeling of proximity to the most visible technology company. Whether their problems are a good fit for Google scale solutions or not. It’s inevitable and it takes a lot of soft skills to argue against even if it’s dead obvious you’re going to be running a few instances of an application maximum. The simple solution is far less sexy than the Google solution.