> And your response is surely “Well of course, that would be nice, but it’s not as simple as that. Here are constraints X Y and Z that make a trivial solution infeasible.”

It's 500 MB of text. A phone could serve that at the scale we're talking about here, which is a PR blog, not netflix.com.

They're struggling with "reading" from a database that is also used for "writes", a terribly difficult situation that no commercial database engine has ever solved in the past.

Meanwhile they have a complex job engine to perform complex tasks such as joining two strings together to form a complete URL instead of just a relative path.

This is pure, unadulterated architecture astronaut arrogance.

PS: This forum, right here, supports editing at a much higher level of concurrency. It also has personalised content that is visible to users with low latency. Etc, etc... All implemented without CQRS, Kafka, and so forth.