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by dalyons 776 days ago
I’ve worked at 3 large scale startups now that removed all their FK constraints due to performance and inflexibility issues. The lack of them never really caused an issue - I’ve never missed them. If you have a services / multiple db architecture you’re going to have to deal with dangling references anyway.

I think they’re somewhat obsolete as a concept.