Or, you know, use something like Cassandra that’s used at massive scales already (by Apple, Netflix, instagram, uber, Walmart, IBM, etc), and scales linearly to

Or, you know, use something like Cassandra that’s used at massive scales already (by Apple, Netflix, instagram, uber, Walmart, IBM, etc), and scales linearly to make future growth trivial. Bonus points that rm -rf on a Cassandra server isn’t a problem, which seems like it could have been useful for gitlab.