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The implication that the stated reasons are wrong and that Uber had some ulterior motive for switching is weird. They didn't have to say anything. They instead
by cwyers 10y ago
The implication that the stated reasons are wrong and that Uber had some ulterior motive for switching is weird. They didn't have to say anything. They instead gave a rather detailed accounting of their reason. What's the motivation to lie? Nobody would have even known they switched if they hadn't said anything.
- grzm 10y ago> stated reasons are wrong and that Uber had some ulterior motive > What's the motivation to lie? You're right. Uber didn't have to publish anything. In all of the discussion regarding, I don't think anyone has tried to imply that Uber is lying about their reasons for switching. If that's how you read what I wrote above, that was not my intent (indeed, I tried very hard to make clear that isn't the case.) That's different from the position that Uber, given their resources, likely could have gotten Postgres to work in their environment if purely the Postgres issues they described in the article were why they chose to use MySQL. Again, I don't think anyone is accusing Uber of lying about or obscuring the reasons they switched from PostgreSQL to MySQL. At least I know I'm not.
- icebraining 10y agoThe slides do say "There was plenty of speculation about "real" motives."