The bottom line is that technology advances have been moving very fast, while public policy has lagged behind. It is time for public policy to catch up with technology. If technology is driving the future, society should do the steering.

PostgreSQL can scale rather well vertically. The more resources (CPU, memory, disk) that you can make available to your PostgreSQL server, the better it can perform. However, while some parts of Postgres can automatically make use of the increased resources, other parts need configuration changes before improvements can be noticed.

Key Takeaways:

• Complexity is the greatest impediment to a software company’s growth and profitability.
• Development costs increase exponentially with respect to the complexity of your code base.
• The choice between speed and simplicity is a false dichotomy. Investment in simplicity is investment in speed.
• Few executives recognize the cost of complexity because they don’t understand the nature of the products they’re selling.
• Software is a product like no other — a hybrid product-service with a very unique warranty.

It's this portability—the fact that microprocessors can perform their calculations almost anywhere—that gives edge networking, computing, monitoring, automation and control its true value.

On March 19 2019 Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest aluminum producers revealed that ransomware had been used in an attack against them. The Norwegian firm was attacked on March 18 and production processes at a number of facilities in Norway, Qatar, Brazil and other countries were affected.

The takeaway is: don't use Kubernetes just because everybody else does. Carefully evaluate your requirements and check which tool fits the bill.