> As mentioned above, the service we were building was a fairly straightforward CRUD app. The expected load on this service was going to be on the order no more

> As mentioned above, the service we were building was a fairly straightforward CRUD app. The expected load on this service was going to be on the order no more than a few queries per second, max, through the lifetime of this particular system. Naturally, there is a reason people opt for higher level languages like Ruby/Python or at least Go or Java/Kotlin to write apps like this.