Where Do We Go from Here?
Scaling problems associated with modern applications now fall largely in the realm of data management. We have reached a point in the evolution of applications where the choice of framework, operating system, programming language, and so on matters less than ever. Hardware and storage get cheaper by the day and tools like virtual machines, the cloud, and containers make interoperation between servers and runtime operations ever more seamless, to the point where once-epochal decisions about languages and platforms are often driven as much by preference as by necessity.
But for reasons we‘ve laid out throughout this book, database choices are different. Someday those choices may revolve around whims and preferences, ...
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