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by jstummbillig 1349 days ago
> Each new tool comes with its own set of trade offs

Is the cognitive load this produces still worth the consideration? At what level do you have to operate for the gains to actually make viable business sense to even consider?

Sometimes I am thinking "Well, surely at Google level" – and then I load up one of their interfaces, for example Google Ads, and I have to sit around for 10s before anything even shows up.

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There are so many startups in the KV DB space that it's absolutely worth it. Now if one is a consultancy, they can very well used any available key value stores. But beyond a certain scale, it's very useful to try and customize a KV store. That's where it becomes useful.
Or not at all like last week. Screens would take forever! It was better the next day luckily.