I get weird looks when I tell people we ran for 3.5 years on an s3api in front of bucket storage. It scaled to meet our needs and was especially appropriate for

I get weird looks when I tell people we ran for 3.5 years on an s3api in front of bucket storage. It scaled to meet our needs and was especially appropriate for our app’s storage profile. And now that the startup doesn’t exist I’m glad that I never wasted time messing with “real” DBs. There’s definitely an industry bias toward using DBs.