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Solve your startup's technical problems

1. Notice you don't have any new, unusual, or hard technical problems.
2. Choose boring technology.
3. You owe @mcfunley $10,000.

FAQ

You're wrong, I have Big Data!

Your data set fits in RAM on one computer, process it there.

You owe @garybernhardt $10,000.

You don't understand! I have really, really big data.

Amazon charges $3 an hour for 1TB of RAM. Your data set still fits in RAM on one computer, process it there.

You owe @garybernhardt another $10,000.

Okay, but I need advanced NoSQL features!

Postgres already does that.

You owe @srbaker $10,000

Well, I at least need microservices.

No. The only real difference between pushing something together and pulling something apart is that some changes become easier to perform than others.

You owe @tef $10,000.

You don't understand! I need web scale.

You can do 100,000 requests/second on a Rails monolith. That's not a theoretical number, Shopify has reached 1,270,000 req/sec.

You owe @indirect $10,000.

I'm using MySQL as a queue.

First, none of these have been questions. Second, stop doing that.

You owe @dbsmasher $20,000.