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by threeseed 1420 days ago
> I'm glad this is becoming conventional wisdom

It's not though. You're just seeing the most popular opinion on HN.

In reality it is nuanced like most real-world tech decisions are. Some use cases necessitate a distributed or sharded database, some work better with a single server and some are simply going to outsource the problem to some vendor.
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Aeolun 1419 days ago
> outsource the problem to some vendor

At least that way you can be certain of failure.

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dist1ll 1420 days ago
Exactly. The HN crowd is obsessed with minimalism and reducing "bloat".

It has become a cult, where availability and scale requirements are apparently fiction. "You are not FAANG, you don't have these requirements."

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