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The cashapp post is actually working towards GPs point. It explains that networked storage MySQL was unreliable and expensive. They migrated to $fancytool which offers a db instance with attached local nvme.

While cashapp may actually need sharding, there are so many companies who are overpaying for shitty performing network storage databases.

Not to mention you are subject to cloud provider networking and compute allocation code. They change it. Big slow network storage DB suddenly gets even worse and you don’t have leverage to have it fixed on their end.