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The problem with this is that eventually the database becomes everything to everyone. You start seeing the frontend UIs suffer due to errors with unrelated tables or table locking operations (like migrations).

Redis is pretty awesome. So is rabbitmq. When you’re a < 100 person startup, probably stick with postgres. Over 100 and I would seriously start considering adding more specialized platform tools.




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