> Things like this are a part of why I push back on people telling me we can do important things later. I don’t want to swap the engine out of a machine that’s moving that fast. There’s no time to learn about how it behaves with real versus synthetic traffic and what the failure modes are when you’re doing many thousands of transactions per second.

Counter-point - the longer you delay a crucial decision the more information you have to make it a correct one, so you might avoid migrating DB engine twice a year