Hyperbole aside, the confluence of features, usability, simplicity and correctness in RethinkDB is amazing. Every time I come back to it I'm impressed by how st

Hyperbole aside, the confluence of features, usability, simplicity and correctness in RethinkDB is amazing. Every time I come back to it I'm impressed by how straightforward and convenient it is to use. I don't understand (also hyperbole, their founder actually did a writeup on why the business venture failed) how such good software could exist and not have a thriving company behind it. I just went through setting up HA RethinkDB on my kubernetes cluster and had more trouble with kubernetes (granted I am new to kubernetes) than I did with the database. Literally just start the first one and start the second one with just `rethinkdb --join <the first one>` and you're done. Want to shard/replicate a specific table? port-forward to the HTTP admin interface, click the table > click re-configure > enter number of replicas (and check out the cool visualization that tells you where your data is going)