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> It's OK to make a choice in the beginning based on the current context and environment, and then change when it no longer makes sense. Yep. And Postgres is a
by davidw 3y ago
> It's OK to make a choice in the beginning based on the current context and environment, and then change when it no longer makes sense.
Yep. And Postgres is a really good choice to start with. Plenty of people won't outgrow it. Those who do find it's not meeting some need will, by the time they need to replace it, have a really good understanding of what that replacement looks like in detail, rather than just some hand-wavy "web scale".
- tracker1 3y agoTrue enough and with modern hardware that barrier is relatively high. IIRC Stack overflow was handling several million users in a single database server over a decade ago... We've got over 8x the compute power and memory now. Still need to understand the data model and effects on queues though.