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So what you're saying is that this article is irrelevant for 99.999% of developers. The instinctive jump to defend databases is completely understandable given that context.

> You use your individual databases as indexes, not as primary storage, and the primary storage is probably S3.

Which is a perfectly valid use for a database. Our company's document management system uses a big database for metadata and then, of course, stores the actual files on disk.