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I think you're understating how tough it can be.

There are applications that

  * are mature and complex

  * with 100s of tables

  * serving millions of users

  * have to be broken into multiple micro-services

  * have developer resource constraints
So you're easily looking at a 1-2 year project, not 1-8 weeks.

You've also ignored some of the complexities, such as resharding (moving data between shards), which may significantly add to the cost of the project.

These perspectives are very negative. An alternative view is that there are tons of interesting problems and projects and applications to be worked on, and to some degree at least you get a say in which ones you work on.

So Gates wants heavy taxes on consumers, but no taxes on entrepreneurs and philanthropists. Interesting. I wonder which of these categories applies to Gates?