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For small teams shipping AI features
Why most database advice is written for a scale you'll never hit — or is a vendor pitch in disguise.
The four dials every AI feature moves at once: cost, latency, safety, and how fast you can change the product.
One relational database until it hurts — and the specific, measurable pains that count as "hurts."
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