[nicoritschel]

lol a FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED post hits the HN homepage every few months it feels like

[whateveracct]

and another CTO will use this meme as a reason to "just use Postgres" for far longer than they should lmao

[throw_away_623]

I’ll take “just use Postgres” over “prematurely add three new systems” any day. Complexity has a cost too.

Using Postgres too long is probably less harmful than adding unnecessary complexity too early