nah at the scale I'm talking about, if you've shipped a produc but your engineers are increasingly dissatisfied with the effort it takes to ship (and are becomi

nah at the scale I'm talking about, if you've shipped a produc but your engineers are increasingly dissatisfied with the effort it takes to ship (and are becoming gun shy because you haven't decoupled things so their outage blast radius is huge), then you are currently failing as a technical leader. And if those things are true and you stick to "one Postgres monolithic DB for everything" you are cargo culting too hard. You can't just keep "doing things that don't scale" forever. If you have 100+ engineers [1], you aren't a startup anymore no matter your roots. [1] and remember, my comment that is the ultimate parent of this conversation is about not continuing to do this at 100+. I said nothing about scaling up to that point.