[j-kidd]

> People are scaling OUT not UP. Especially startups.

Startups need to scale out because many of them like to deploy on mediocre EC2 instances with the slowest SAN storage ever.

People that keep recommending PostgreSQL are rightfully ignoring this industry.

[taligent]

> Startups need to scale out because many of them like to deploy on mediocre EC2 instances.

No. They need to scale out because providers like AWS have outages. And so startups et al need to deploy in multiple AZ/regions in order to have as close to 100% uptime as possible. You can't do that with a well considered multi master style replication strategy which PostgreSQL frankly doesn't have.

>People that keep recommending PostgreSQL are rightfully ignoring this industry.

Sure. And soon enough they will be relegated to the dustbins of history. The trends don't lie.

[gbog]

"The trends don't lie"

Wah. And you do not even seem to be ironic. Trends always lie, there is always a next thing that will take the opposite direction, in philosophy, in science, and particularly so in computing stuff.