When we are already at the point of giving advice: use postgres instead of MySQL.
Anyway the article is actually not very good. If you are able to put your data in a managed db with backups and stuff, this is mostly better anyway than playing around with some local data but plenty of people don't have access to a managed db service.
And no 16gb is nothing. Go get more ram for 50 bucks and forget about it.
Anyway the article is actually not very good. If you are able to put your data in a managed db with backups and stuff, this is mostly better anyway than playing around with some local data but plenty of people don't have access to a managed db service.
And no 16gb is nothing. Go get more ram for 50 bucks and forget about it.