[msvan]

I've used both of the suggested methods under "Current standards for scaling out databases" so I see where this is coming from. But I peeked at the AWS reference architecture, and it places a Consul and ReadySet deployment in my environment for me to run and maintain. I feel like any sales pitch for this really needs to convince me that having these things in my environments is going to be worth the hassle in terms of milliseconds and dollars, as opposed to just using RDS read replicas and paying a bit more. Then again, I can see this being an obvious choice if you're growing very quickly or have tight latency requirements.

With that said, it looks like cool tech and I read Jon's Rust for Rustaceans which serves as a stamp of quality for this even if I haven't tried it yet!