Building a highly-available web service without a database
If you’ve ever built a web service or a web app, you know the drill: pick a database, pick a web service framework (and in today’s day and age, pick a front-end framework, but let’s not get into that). This has been the case for several decades now, and people don’t stop to question if this is still the best way to build a web app. Many things have changed in the last decade: Disk is a lot faster
