"Very intermittent access" is the use-case for most things I build. There's a short tail -- I've built a platform you've heard of and, given this is HN, more li

"Very intermittent access" is the use-case for most things I build. There's a short tail -- I've built a platform you've heard of and, given this is HN, more likely than not, used. Then there's a long tail: - Home automation - Municipal / school / community sites - Personal web page - Various internal automation within my organization ... and so on. These are things which: 1. Require very simple technology (E.g. storing data in a small key-value store is more than good enough) 2. Should work for the next decade or three with no maintenance 3. Expect to be accessed maybe a couple of times a day, if I'm lucky, and probably much less 4. Most will never scale to gigabytes of data, ever