[aerhardt]

I can buy your comment as an interesting and even credible hypothesis, but the absolutes which you deal in (“doesn’t pass even the most basic sniff test”) are damning. You are clearly lacking huge amounts of information and context and are passing your own assumptions as hard facts.

Also, I’m assuming Amazon or Google will sometimes roll their own solutions on problems of a scale in the same ballpark as Figma’s.

But anyhow, what’s the scale at which this becomes acceptable, exactly? Is there a magical number which serves as a universal threshold? Or is there - like in all engineering decisions - a very concrete economic case for which you and I both lack a lot of the requisite context and inputs?

[dbuser99]

In this particular case of sharding a postgresql solution, in my opinion, the parent is right. Any major cloud provider would give companies of their scale assistance. This is their bread and butter. The posts likely hide the requirement of stay on aws, but we don’t know they did not talk about that. Likewise cockroach or yugabyte were also available options.

[CoastalCoder]

I like the approach you took for questioning an unqualified claim.

Seems like a useful argument design pattern.