Thanks for sharing. It matches my experience. After many years of a lean team serving high scale traffic (> 1 million monthly active users per engineer), most

Thanks for sharing. It matches my experience. After many years of a lean team serving high scale traffic (> 1 million monthly active users per engineer), most abstractions between customer and data seem to turn into performance liabilities. Any major changes to either client behavior or data model are very likely to require changes to the other side. There's a lot to be said for just embracing the DB and putting it front and center. A favorite system we built was basically just Client -> RPC -> SQL. One client screen == one sql query.