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Hibernate is a powerful tool but it takes away control of your data. This can give a young product the velocity it needs to reach market but it may incur penalties later on by making support and maintenance more expensive. However these are perfectly solvable problems without having to replace Hibernate in the product. The complication we encountered was due to the number of database instances we had to load on a single cloud we could not afford the overhead that Hibernate introduces any more. It made more sense in our situation to take the risk of replacing Hibernate in hopes that it pay off further down the road. As a result our time to diagnose problems has dropped, we have more flexibility in how a problem can be solved and we have a much stronger understanding of the workload in the cloud with more direct control of it... The first step in the load balancing solution was making sure we had mechanisms to safely manage customer data without risking corruption or losing data. This..