It took me a long time to feel comfortable with the idea of building our own database. For Stream it worked out well though: https://stackshare.io/stream/stream

It took me a long time to feel comfortable with the idea of building our own database. For Stream it worked out well though: https://stackshare.io/stream/stream-and-go-news-feeds-for-over-300-million-end-users https://stackshare.io/stream/stream-and-go-news-feeds-for-ov... Tools like RocksDB and Raft give you really flexible building blocks.