Data has moved to a real database. Next, there may be brave attempts to add actual structure. Working with a real database is nice, as is not losing data, and being able to restore. Not everything is ephemeral, after all. Database service providers and cool stuff they do are discussed. The deal with Elastic is clarified. Finally, it is revealed where you should store your traces. It is actually probably fine. Links MongoDB RethinkDB Ecto Ecto changesets Database schema OpenAPI Ash framework Django Django REST framework X-Request-ID Transactions Write-ahead log pg_restore pg_dump Bigquery Logical replication Fly.io ElectricSQL Flutter React native CRDT:s Phoenix liveview Firefly Webassembly SQLite DuckDB Clickhouse Developer voices podcast Episode about Clickhouse Plausible analytics Fathom analytics podcast Paul Jarvis - the " Company of One " guy Jack Ellis Laravel Fathom Elasticsearch Meilisearch Lucene Cardinality Honeycomb OpenTelemetry New relic HyperDX Datadog Quotes A worse MongoDB Migration complete Everything is ephemeral The idea is to add lots of columns It seems a bit more Django The stakes were high but the budget was almost zero It is actually probably fine