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Do you need availability or consistency? https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/05/11/please-stop-calling-...
I would personally never build anything mission critical using NoSQL, sure it’s fast and easy to use, but it might render unreliable in some situations when it’s most important.
However 99% of stuff SWE use to build are nowhere close to that level of importance.
As long as you know your tool and requirements feel free to use whatever you want, even JSON file on hard drive.
I was using Vivaldi back then, it used to freeze whole browser once or twice a week, which was unacepptable when I was doing ie. demo of new version. Such freeze took few minutes to recover from, and the whole call was 30 min of length.
After switching back to Safari problem was gone.
So for me Vivaldi is big NO.
However, we are about to become expats in one month so I kind of think of selling now (few reasons, government taxes, house prices went up). I think that renting is way better in a long run (unless you plan to live in one city for more than 10+ years). As for buying, maybe some small house in my 50s in some less populated area like mountains or forest :)
TBH I do not need that kind of money. I do it for new challenges that come with it. I live with my partner, we both had our higher education for free, we plan no children, and we both have 80k euro in our saving accounts.
Why would I need to earn more? I would prefer to pay more taxes so everything is growing more evenly - less poverty = less crimes, more happiness.
Just my $0.02