> would it ever make sense to configure the application to use a different (or even just remote) database? Emh, don’t we always end up like this? As in, the da

> would it ever make sense to configure the application to use a different (or even just remote) database? Emh, don’t we always end up like this? As in, the database stays up while restarting the app; The DB is restarted when upgrading versions; and when we start 10 front-end nodes while keeping one DB only. All if this because they have different lifecycles: DB data is permanent, webserver data is ephemeral.