> So in reality I think the only really scalable part here is the database. And scalability in databases has no universal solution and the ones that exists come

> So in reality I think the only really scalable part here is the database. And scalability in databases has no universal solution and the ones that exists come with the load of caveats. I do wonder what limitations and caveats you are talking about. That is true for many databases who are only consistent on one row/collection/region/snapshot, have strange limitations such as no joins, require your data to be preformatted in a certain way etc. DynamoDB also has a few limitations in those aspects. I have both love and hate memories from my experience with DynamoDB. But nowadays you get to choose between databases like FaunaDb, Spanner, FoundationDB, CockroachDB... So what are the Caveats you still worry about? If you would combine such distributed databases with edge serverless frameworks like Cloudflare workers I could see amazing possibilities tbh. It's strange how front-end programmers seem to be picking up distributed databases at great speeds due to the benefits of low latency for their users, zero configuration and autoscaling. But it seems that we backenders are reluctant and still prefer our hardware for some reason :). Is it pure pricing?