The premature optimization is evil meme has just been pushed beyond reason, that's all. People blindly insist that it is cheaper to just throw hardware at it then waste "precious developer time" on making things fast. But in most cases, a few hours of time spent up front making sure you aren't doing horribly slow things can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars in hosting expenses. I have not met any developers getting paid $100k/hour.
>Or as great as PostgreSQL is for single server deployment why wouldn't I look at something easier to manage, trivial to scale and a more agile schema like a DynamoDB, MongoHQ, Cassandra
That has nothing to do with premature optimization, that is just about using unproven data stores because you didn't bother to read the label.
>Or as great as PostgreSQL is for single server deployment why wouldn't I look at something easier to manage, trivial to scale and a more agile schema like a DynamoDB, MongoHQ, Cassandra
That has nothing to do with premature optimization, that is just about using unproven data stores because you didn't bother to read the label.