I wholeheartedly agree with the author that holding all your state within one system has massive benefits. As soon as you have to make your state cross process

I wholeheartedly agree with the author that holding all your state within one system has massive benefits. As soon as you have to make your state cross process boundaries yourself, you are going to have a much more difficult time and are exposing yourself to a much larger problem space. > If we were to need search, we’d use Postgres’ full text search instead of ElasticSearch. I think this is significantly easier said than done, I don’t really consider those two pieces of tech equivalent. Postgres FTS is pretty good, but I don’t think it really can do a lot of the stuff ES can do well.