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Re:Old, Good Database Design by rdiddly on Monday September 14, 2020 @06:58PM (#24476104)
All depends what you're doing, right? Is it a small stupid app with a short lifespan? Is it "just" a proof-of-concept? Is the company likely to survive long enough that technical debt matters? (oblig. HN/SV/startup comment) Is there a ridiculous imbalance between data ingestion volume vs. reads/retrieval? All good arguments for alternative/noSQL approaches.
Re:Old, Good Database Design by chrisandchris on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @07:18AM (#24491487)
Yes. And then you‘re app grows and now you have an undocumented NoSQL database that would better have been a RDMS...

There‘s nothing wrong with starting the proper way.