I started webdev (or webapp dev or what ever it was called) quite "late" into my career about 13 years ago. At the time ruby+MySQL were the biggest rage. For

I started webdev (or webapp dev or what ever it was called) quite "late" into my career about 13 years ago. At the time ruby+MySQL were the biggest rage. For some reason I was reading that while MySQL was blazing fast, postgres was standards compliant and focusing on being "correct" and thought ful about it's evolution. I even (may be naively) reasoned that, this deliberate focus + lending itself to better control plane development (I didn't know about control planes at that time but coming from embedded systems had a gut feel about it) were going to be powerful features. Again pure gut feel as I had no web or service dev experience (came from a c++ background). I am so glad I picked postgres as my db for life when it was not such a cool thing. It has been vindicated time and time again!