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This. Maybe there's a market opportunity for people who want to be treated like cattle, but even Spirit couldn't find it.

The comments are pretty convincing evidence that most people see only everyone else's complexity while slowly boiling in their own.

Rent-seeking, anyone?

> "small-ish backoffice systems that never has to be web scale". Doesn't production use of Datomic by Nubank and Netflix (to mention just two examples) belie this assertion?

Having the working set present on app servers means they don't put load on a precious centralized resource which becomes a bottleneck for reads. The peer model allows app servers to service reads directly, avoiding the cost of contention and an additional network hop, allowing for massive read scale.

Free beer binaries are not mutually exclusive of Enterprise support agreements featuring all those things you mentioned above _for people that need that_.

Netflix, Facebook (Meta), Nubank, and many others.

A company that wastes its own money and its candidates' time by failing to screen out any of its red flags as soon as they are known is a red flag.