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Ask HN: Why don't more startups use API gateways?

I've worked at a few startups including some prominent ones that offer API-driven products. We almost always built out authentication, authorization, rate-limiting, caching, etc. every time (or by stitching together a bunch of different packages).Recently talked to a friend working at a more mature company that used AWS API Gateway to handle all of that business logic. Obviously AWS's setup...

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SQL Server should do just fine. I use Vitess (MySQL hosted on PlanetScale) with Prisma for my Next app, https://debate.land. It works just fine with scale, but I have found myself turning to writing some raw SQL queries to optimize performance/run some nuanced aggregations that Prisma doesn't seem to have a way to handle. If I had to do it again, I'd probably use https://drizle.team. Seems to be a more performant ORM. But for getting started, either will suffice.