[mattmanser]

It's pretty normal to have a local dev database on your machine. It's how we did it for decades. Are there really developers in the wild now that have never been exposed to working with a locally installed SQL instance?

These days you can even set it up in docker, automatically migrate the database to the latest version and install a bunch of test data. So you can wipe the whole thing and go back to a good state if you muck it up with a bad or ill-thought-out local migration, etc.

Same with redis, etc.

And it's still much, much simpler than a microservice architecture.