> But I think most importantly the decrease in dev speed and performance is an investment in future scalability. It makes sense only if you'll ever need this s

> But I think most importantly the decrease in dev speed and performance is an investment in future scalability. It makes sense only if you'll ever need this scalability. And you take a hit on other fronts too: Infra cost, Deployment complexity. And both deployment complexity and code complexity also increase QA cost, instability, product and company reputation. >> much like people don't often start with SQLite today Maybe they should start with SQLite by default