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- Apr 2026 Engineering · · 9 min Why 'best of breed' loses at small scale The ops cost of running four engines instead of one, measured in person-hours at team sizes of 2, 5, and 15 engineers. Multi-model isn't only a scale concern — it's a small-team unlock.
- Engineering · · 9 min When you don't need RedDB An honest list of workloads where Postgres + pgvector, SQLite, or a single-purpose store will serve you better than RedDB. If your shape is on this list, save yourself the migration.
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