Almost all the big companies I worked for had a "database gang" -- a database group which, in the name of centralization, forced you to bow to them to get anything. New DB? bow to them. More nodes? bow to them. Reboot? bow to them. The internal budget "prices" would be off the charts unbelievable.
It makes sense to centralize, but only at a certain cost. Beyond that cost, it is better to just de-centralize because not every project can spend 4-5 months of meetings to spin up a DB.
The cloud changed this because it became an OpEx discussion and something you could spin up on your own. For non-production workloads, it comes especially obvious to do this.
It makes sense to centralize, but only at a certain cost. Beyond that cost, it is better to just de-centralize because not every project can spend 4-5 months of meetings to spin up a DB.
The cloud changed this because it became an OpEx discussion and something you could spin up on your own. For non-production workloads, it comes especially obvious to do this.