[blagie]

"Very intermittent access" is the use-case for most things I build. There's a short tail -- I've built a platform you've heard of and, given this is HN, more likely than not, used. Then there's a long tail:

- Home automation

- Municipal / school / community sites

- Personal web page

- Various internal automation within my organization

... and so on.

These are things which:

1. Require very simple technology (E.g. storing data in a small key-value store is more than good enough)

2. Should work for the next decade or three with no maintenance

3. Expect to be accessed maybe a couple of times a day, if I'm lucky, and probably much less

4. Most will never scale to gigabytes of data, ever