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Lewis Cowles

This is a great write-up.

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Performance suffers consequently, as retrieving data from a database always takes some time

Caching and event-bus are your friends here. Worst case, you'll still be correct, but at scale peak performance has to be a network request anyway, since commodity hardware struggles to presently be able to address hundreds of gigabytes of user data in a short time, resiliently, etc.