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More reasons not to use ActiveRecord/ in app serialization or MongoDB.

Just use PostGIS for the geodata and Postgres JSON type for serialization.

The value is in the rest of usecases that don't need that much of a performance boost. I think it's great that easier/higher level abstractions can be leveraged for most business logic/usecases (using Rails/Django/other frameworks) and teams can dig down and bypass those abstractions for the few endpoints that they really need to be performant of (like this article describes).
I really want to like Datadog. But, their website is often too unresponsive and sluggish. I always feel some unpleasant cognitive dissonance when using it.