What a great post. Humble and honest and simple and focused on an issue most developers think is so simple (“why not just vibe code SQL?”, “whatever, just scale up the RDS instance”).

Compliments aside, where this article stops is where things get exciting. Postgres shines here, as does Vitess, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, even MongoDB has materialized views now. Vitess and Scylla are so good, it’s a shame they’re not more popular among smaller startups!

What I haven’t seen yet is a really good library for managing materialized views.