NoSQL has its place but on a generalistic framework this dismissal of RDBMs is pretty bad.
The choice of mixing deployment (k8s) with code framework is interesting.
Exactly.
As a global enterprise under financial and security regulations (relational transactions matter), seeing MongoDB here instead of e.g. Postgres, coupled with these assertions — sadly I had to close the tab.
To be more specific:
> We think they are archaic and make development slow.
As a developer, your job is not to optimize for the developer. It’s to optimize for the business and the user.
You develop once, users and the business run it many times. So to minimize total pain, you pay once with your pain, so that the business and user do not have pain every use.