Ask HN: What is the most exotic technical requirement someone proposed?

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Working with people that have less developed technical knowledge can lead to dubious demands on the priority list.

My favorite: "It has to run on the cloud in a rackspace located in the datacenter owned by a guy I know from the golfclub."

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I work with a DevOps guy who is the biggest enthusiast of Postgres that I know. I am responsible for the Data Warehouse, and he blocks Redshift and Athena, says that a Postgres RDS instance can keep up with any in-memory columnar database, given enough tuning.

Aside from that, its mainly CV-driven development, where people either want to work with what they already know and are comfortable with, or want to add a feather in their cap so the backend has to have the latest buzzwords and the frontend has to use the latest JavaScript framework.

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