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Is there a version of poe's law for hacker news / slashdot? A large company describes their very real efforts and shares their experience and knowledge, and th
by eterm 10y ago
Is there a version of poe's law for hacker news / slashdot?
A large company describes their very real efforts and shares their experience and knowledge, and the first comment is "Why not use <preferred thing> instead?".
- Rodeoclash 10y agoBecause knowing how they worked through the decision to come to a conclusion on using a particular product is valuable. Postgres is usually the first choice for applications like this so knowing why they chose something else over that could influence others that need to make a similar decision.
- thinkingkong 10y agoWhen you say usually you probably mean "currently, usually" or "in the last x years usually". Netflix has super smart people. They arent just picking random tools off the shelf and implementing things without constraints for the sake of it.
- angersock 10y agoRight, which is why asking how they came to that decision (instead of using a DB dating back over three decades of development) is useful and reasonable.
- otterley 10y ago> Postgres is usually the first choice for applications like this Do you have any data to substantiate this claim?