> Let’s charitably say you can run your app with a 1GB cut down snapshot of production. Plenty of apps can run from an empty database, if the data storage is f

> Let’s charitably say you can run your app with a 1GB cut down snapshot of production. Plenty of apps can run from an empty database, if the data storage is focused on resources you, the user, have created for yourself. But I imagine that people with their heads in the future are imagining you'll use one of these new database startups (the names escape me) to manage snapshots, seeding from anonymised production data, etc.