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landtuna on May 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building Backbone.js/Python based tech stack

Also, because I don't need teh web scalez, I'm using Postgres. For fear of making things completely undevelopable for hires outside Silicon Valley and NYC, I passed on stuff like Coffeescript and SASS.

mattdeboard on May 26, 2012 [–]

Are you implying that you can't use Postgres for web-scale services?

pyre on May 26, 2012 | | [–]

I think the implication is that he/she doesn't need some exotic combination of SQL and NoSQL databases in some complicated stack for scaling.

landtuna on May 26, 2012 | | [–]

No, I'm just picking on the HN groupthink.

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