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Ah gotcha yeah at the small scale(?) scaling we're talking about monolithic applications, being a bit simpler to organize and run, do still make for a compelling solution. That's a great tip regarding how to handle ballooning storage issues via managed cloud offerings (in the weird case I make something that really works) that I hadn't considered. However, it's starting to feel like these scaling questions/solutions are a lot more akin to Factorio bottleneck chasing than I would like haha.