> It's very hard to beat decades of RDBMS research and improvements
> Micro-services require justification (they've increasingly just become assumed)
That is so true. I am still deploying good old .war files to full blown Java app servers backed by simple SQL databases (all clustered and stuff) with some handwritten cli tools and a Jenkins server. Shit is fast, shit scales, shit just works. It is a pleasure to work with
> It's very hard to beat decades of RDBMS research and improvements
> Micro-services require justification (they've increasingly just become assumed)
That is so true. I am still deploying good old .war files to full blown Java app servers backed by simple SQL databases (all clustered and stuff) with some handwritten cli tools and a Jenkins server. Shit is fast, shit scales, shit just works. It is a pleasure to work with