Author here. To clarify — is your concern that the only scaling options I listed are proprietary services? If so, I completely agree. This article was inspire

Author here. To clarify — is your concern that the only scaling options I listed are proprietary services? If so, I completely agree. This article was inspired by a tool we're building internally, based on the same architecture. We knew this was the right approach, but we refuse to rely on proprietary databases, so we built our own in-house. We’re planning to open-source it soon.