Having elasticsearch, as this resource hungry slow to update JVM based thing always seems so horrible in Django based projects. In that world, using haystack a

Having elasticsearch, as this resource hungry slow to update JVM based thing always seems so horrible in Django based projects. In that world, using haystack and choosing a backend based on C++ is so much less hassle for deployment. Although for many things just FTS in Postgres is fine too. I'm sure for planet scale stuff ES is fine, but otherwise I've only found it brings pain in the kind of dev I get to do.