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There are non-negligible problems in the news space like: 1. Supporting full-text search for a fair number of concurrent users 2. Availability of the syste
by awinder 9y ago
There are non-negligible problems in the news space like:
1. Supporting full-text search for a fair number of concurrent users
2. Availability of the system with minimal downtime
3. Scalability within the day and year, traffic patterns around e.g., breaking news events will far surpass 2AM traffic
4. Notifications
I could go on and on but honestly, it's just a tone-deaf response.
Parting pot-shot: "No one is going to admit to their boss that the reason a worldwide news organization can't publish any stories is because their one postgres master node went down, or is waiting on a state transfer to a fallback master"
- cookiecaper 9y ago"We can't publish right now because the database had to enter an unplanned maintenance period" is a lot different from "our authoritative archive is gone and we have to try to rebuild it from all these separate 'materialized views', woops."