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last time I asked why not PostgreSQL, now I have my answer. I love netflix's posts. Way more than most other tech blogs and their responses on the how and why i
by merb 10y ago
last time I asked why not PostgreSQL, now I have my answer. I love netflix's posts. Way more than most other tech blogs and their responses on the how and why is mostly more accurate than others (looking at uber) especially their expertise in evaluating stuff is extremly good.
What I especially wondered was why DRBD (i didn't had good experiences with it, neither with psql nor with mysql) guess with a lot of engineers + the hope to migrate to aurora at some day makes this a reasonable choice (i guess).
Still funny that their whole billing infrastructure runs on like two nodes for a while (the masters) while I guess a lot of things there has a need for writes especially when the monthly billing takes place.
- brianwawok 10y agoYou could send a monthly bill to the entire world in 2 servers I suspect.
- Consultant32452 10y agoI wonder if you could bill the entire world from a single Raspberry Pi. I suspect it could be done.
- rodgerd 10y ago> now I have my answer. Yes, although it was interesting that they put themselves through ETL pain now for a future state they aren't moving to.
- philliphaydon 10y agoI had the same question running through my head. But I really like their simple justification. Completely honest. Not like an article recently posted.