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Don't knock yourself. Doing this work of scaling increases your expertise substantially, and the journey and the hurdles you cross along the way move you severa
by barrkel 6y ago
Don't knock yourself. Doing this work of scaling increases your expertise substantially, and the journey and the hurdles you cross along the way move you several standard deviations beyond the crowd. Specialist is a different term; it's more exclusionary than it is necessarily denoting of expertise. You can specialize in small applications without gaining expertise in scale.
- gshulegaard 6y agoI greatly appreciate your positivity! Experience is a great expertise builder for sure, although I find the more experience I get the more technical expertise I realize I don't have. A bit ironic now that I am thinking about it in those terms. But I hope my comment made scaling PostgreSQL feel approachable for others who consider themselves non-experts in the area. The message I hoped to build was that non-experts can be successful without trivializing the effort. Which can be a somewhat difficult line to walk. But thank you regardless.