[g-w1]

Yes, the only way to truly learn that you should never write a database is to write a database. In fact, I bet that is what the author of the tweet did to learn that they should never write one.

I wrote a blog post about this: https://jacobgw.com/blog/observation/2023/07/08/shoot-yourse...

[dpritchett]

Good ear. She is cofounder of a company that built their own “distributed column store”: https://youtu.be/tr2KcekX2kk?si=ID0qB-O2ucXF4GXC