At My first programming job, as an intern we went with his approach, using rethinkDB amd python “microservices” that were all separate python processes reading

At My first programming job, as an intern we went with his approach, using rethinkDB amd python “microservices” that were all separate python processes reading from their own rethinkDB change feed lambda - the system was essentially built as a distributed reactive microservice pipeline, with rethinkDB as the source of truth for every other process - which existed on 100-1000 machines depending!