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What I learnt building 3 large web applications on an embedded key value store (medium.com/tonyalaribe)
3 points by tonyalaribe on Feb 25, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



A very good read. An interesting point from the article: ">>Also, using an embedded key value store alongside an embedded indexing engine like Blevesearch in a compiled language like Golang, means you can truly deploy single binaries with no external dependencies and no need for post deployment setups".

I think that most small, medium or even large companies which operate in b2b or even in niche b2c markets who would never reach the massive scale of Google/FB/LinkedIns don't need complex architectures involving large scale databases or micro services. Yet they spent large amount of money for building datacenters, hiring large team for maintaining the architecture including system admins, database admins, developers etc.

P.S The author seems to be a developer from Nigeria. It's not very often you get interesting articles from outside Asia or Western countries.




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