Silicon Valley's Secret
money.cnn.com3 pointsby jroseattle0 comments
Verify it it's a problem by speaking with customers.
You can still use all the tools, but in the end you want to talk to those who you intend to serve. At that point, you'll have zeroed in on the actual problem they may have and are willing to pay you to solve.
Maybe we were lucky in our implementation, but a key factor for our decision was understanding how to manage the systems in our environment. We would have skilled up with Redis, but we felt our Postgres solution would be a good first step. We just haven't had a need to go to a second step yet.