[mdavid626]

Scalability is not the keyword here.

The same principle applies to small applications too.

If you apply it correctly, the application never going to be slow due to slow db queries and you won’t have to optimize complex queries at all.

Plus if you want to split out part of an app to its own service, it’ll be easily possible.

[nicoburns]

One of the last companies I worked at had very fast queries and response times doing all the joins in-memory in the database. And that was only on a database on a small machine with 8GB RAM. That leaves a vast amount of room for vertical scaling before we started hitting limits.