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by maccaw 1093 days ago
The trouble with coupling the two is that now I have to either trust some third party db service, or some custom db.

The DB is so fundamental, and so hard to get right / scale, that it's hard to trust a startup to do it well.

We use Firebase and even with all the resources google has this has a lot of issues (especially with the client libs).