I am surprised how incredibly lazy some people are. I have been standing at train stations waiting for the train to arrive and there is a trash can ten feet away and the smoker will just drop the cigarette right where they are standing.
"I've certainly never noticed any stripe branding." That is the whole point, you are not suppose to know who is processing the credit cards for apple. Stripe provides a white label services while paypal's convoluted service is really in your face about who provides the 'service'.
Since CockroachDB is Eventually Consistent Reads then how would that affect my SaaS multiuser application? How long on average would I have to wait for them to become Consistent?
Say you scaled up to 100 nodes for the holiday season, is there any way to tell how many/much storage/nodes you have to keep running in order to keep 3 backups and maintain your new post holiday load?