Managed databases are great. We've spent the last decade spinning up and monitoring databases through GUIs, and can be hard to imagine doing databases any other way. But here's the thing. If we were to imagine returning to old-school database management in such a way where we weighed the benefits and costs objectively, I think a lot of us would realize that when it comes to added value, managed databases aren't nearly as great as they are overpriced.

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