> If you can share, what's the reason you folks went with this architecture? In its present state it's a fairly sane architecture for our purposes, but the onl

> If you can share, what's the reason you folks went with this architecture? In its present state it's a fairly sane architecture for our purposes, but the only honest & concise answer to this question is that we didn't know what we were doing and it just kind of worked out that way. Not coincidentally, this also describes the architecture of the business as a whole.