Radical Simplicity in Technology

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25 pointsj4mie4 comments

Often the excuse used to do things properly the hard way even though you're just starting out, is to prepare for unexpected growth.

But I like the sentiment with this, and it does seem advantageous to get used to reforging new systems every so often when you reach a certain threshold of demand, rather than spending all your money on building the perfect foundation of a building you might not be able to finish.

Yes, premature scaling is the death of many startups,

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanfurr/2011/09/02/1-cause-o...

Postgres is great but it also seems like a religion at this point. I agree on not using a bunch of software you don't need. But he is saying that it's not simple unless everything is in Postgres. Seems like a premature conclusion.

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I think you can use what you want, as long as it's not a dozen moving parts - meaning several databases. Postgres has the benefit of good caching, good pub/sub, good Json document support, basic but often good enough fulltext search and a good columnar store with TimescaleDB.

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