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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by mritchie712 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @07:15AM (#29850953)
Right, this was my point. People don't usually run Postgres themselves (e.g. set up Postgres in a docker container), but it's not very hard to do.

The article makes it sound like Infura has a moat. There's no moat, it's as easy to switch as it is to switch Postgres clouds.

To be clear, I agree with most of their findings, this on is just a bit off.

Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by biorach on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:11AM (#29852985)
> People don't usually run Postgres themselves (e.g. set up Postgres in a docker container), but it's not very hard to do.

It's easy to do a basic install.

It's quite hard to do it right, at scale, with workload-appropriate configuration, replication, backup etc.

My point... neither Postures nor Indira, or any other blockchain solution are easy to install and maintain in a fully scaled-up, fault-tolerant, multi-node deployment