Upside down rollercoaster at a fair? Hard pass.
I’d also suggest looking at ZFS. Works great on Linux and it’s super powerful.
Bit of a paradox of tolerance situation here. Communist regimes have been some of the most dehumanizing in existence. It’s perfectly reasonable to not support them.
Not too surprising. California is a great state, but the cost of living is certainly high. I imagine with remote work becoming more possible, people are taking opportunities to move to places with a lower cost of living.
Not necessarily a pain, you just have to model the data very differently in something like DynamoDB. Those views are secondary indexes.
Search, though, you're right. You'd be running ElasticSearch along side it and the cost and complexity starts to go up. Or just abandon having a functional search entirely, like Reddit did...
How is it? I was never a huge Diablo fan, but played 3 through because I got it for free with World of Warcraft. It was okay, but I thought the story was kind of meh and it didn't have the replayability for me as something like Dark Souls.