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TLDR; just Postgres for everything.

We have invited complexity through the door. But it will not leave as easily.

There is Radical Simplicity though.

One way to simplify your stack and reduce the moving parts, speed up development, lower the risk and deliver more features in your startup is "Use Postgres for everything". Postgres can replace—up to millions of users—many backend technologies, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Mongo and Redis among them.

This makes every application easier to develop, scale and operate.

Less moving parts means fewer developers for parts that don't provide value or just replicate existing functionality (frontend) and more developers on parts (like the backend) that does provide value to customers. What if you could increase feature output by 50% without higher costs? For developers: What about a lower cognitive load? You really deeply understand all moving parts? No more imposter syndrome?

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