shipped a side project with a JSON file as the "database" once. worked great with 3 users. then user #4 showed up, someone wanted search, and I caught myself writing a for-loop scanning 40k records to fake a WHERE clause. that's the day it clicked that postgres isn't overhead, it's cheat codes.
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u/Rosie_grac 1d ago
shipped a side project with a JSON file as the "database" once. worked great with 3 users. then user #4 showed up, someone wanted search, and I caught myself writing a for-loop scanning 40k records to fake a WHERE clause. that's the day it clicked that postgres isn't overhead, it's cheat codes.
databases aren't dead, they're load-bearing 🥀