Yeah, it's funny to see them going in opposite directions. Then again, Squarespace is operating at a far bigger scale than Motion is, so it kind of makes sense. I partially believe them when they say that "we had already pushed vertical scaling to its limits". My guess is that continuing to use Postgres would have been totally possible, but perhaps much more annoying.
Funnily there's a HN post from yesterday about migrating the other way around: Migrating to Postgres | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43989497
Yeah, it's funny to see them going in opposite directions. Then again, Squarespace is operating at a far bigger scale than Motion is, so it kind of makes sense. I partially believe them when they say that "we had already pushed vertical scaling to its limits". My guess is that continuing to use Postgres would have been totally possible, but perhaps much more annoying.