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I currently have one concept stuck in my mind, which I would call "Complexity distribution".

For example, at work, the simplest solution across the whole organization was to adopt the most complex PostgreSQL deployment structure and backup solutions.

This sounds counter-intuitive at first. But this way, the company can invest ~3 full time employees on having an HA, PITR capable PostgreSQL clutser with properly archived backups around ~25 other development teams can rely on. This stack solves so many B2B problems of business continuity, security, backups, availability.

And on the other hand, for the dev-teams, the PostgreSQL is suddenly very simple. Inject ~8 variables into a container and you can claim all of these good things for your application without ever thinking about those.



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