> large userbase have large operating costs You can scale a single sqlite db to millions of users without too much trouble. The "large operating costs" meme pr

> large userbase have large operating costs You can scale a single sqlite db to millions of users without too much trouble. The "large operating costs" meme primarily arose due to the atrociously large costs big cloud providers will make you pay for moderate traffic. It's not helped by the cargo cult of scalability, which strongly pushes you to use something shardable when in all but the most extraordinary cases the dumbest solution will keep working long beyond what's expected.