I've been trying to tell my colleagues and higher-ups this for the last few weeks as I've planned out a new platform that "needs to scale." They've heard that s

I've been trying to tell my colleagues and higher-ups this for the last few weeks as I've planned out a new platform that "needs to scale." They've heard that some of our business partners are using MongoDB and want to know why I'm using Postgres. The truth is that our traffic could wildly exceed our most hopeful projections and we still wouldn't nearly be in the position of orgs like Twitter, Facebook, or Netflix, stretching the limits of what an RDBMS can do without becoming a nightmare to maintain.