alt Hacker Newspeople wildly underestimate the os page cache and modern nvme drives tbh. disk io today is basically ram speeds from 10 years ago. seeing startups spin up managed postgres + redis clusters + prisma on day 1 just to collect waitlist emails is peak feature vomit.
a jsonl file and a single go binary will literally outlive most startup runways.
also, the irony of a database gui company writing a post about how you dont actually need a database is pretty based.
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phillipcarter • today at 5:25 PM
> seeing startups spin up managed postgres + redis clusters + prisma on day 1 just to collect waitlist emails is peak feature vomit.
I'm pretty sure most startups just use a quick and easy CRM that makes this process easy, and that tool will certainly use a database.
The irony isn’t lost on us, trust me. We spent a while debating whether to even publish this one.
But yeah, the page cache point is real and massively underappreciated. Modern infrastructure discourse skips past it almost entirely. A warm NVMe-backed file with the OS doing the caching is genuinely fast enough for most early-stage products.