I applaud anyone willing to look back and reason about what we've lost. In this case, I prefer leaving the past in the past. Startups used to need to hire dedi

I applaud anyone willing to look back and reason about what we've lost. In this case, I prefer leaving the past in the past. Startups used to need to hire dedicated DBAs, and these days they largely don't. Scaling business logic that lives on horizontally-scaleable hosts is markedly easier than scaling business logic that lives inside a database. Debugging, zero-downtime deploys, and logging are all complicated by putting logic in the DB. Unless latency is far-and-away your highest concern, I don't recommend using these features.