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"We quickly discounted this as it didn’t fit with our three pillars of Run Less Software and decided to consolidate on MySQL, specifically on AWS MySQL. As we w
by andyfleming 9y ago
"We quickly discounted this as it didn’t fit with our three pillars of Run Less Software and decided to consolidate on MySQL, specifically on AWS MySQL. As we were able to benefit from the pace of AWS innovation (and adopt AWS Aurora when it came along) we got 5x throughput at a 30% cost reduction."
It's worth noting that Aurora is compatible with PostgreSQL (as of Oct 2017) [1].
1. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-amazon-aurora...
- venuur 9y agoThe indented quote renders as a code block and isn’t readable on mobile. I like your reference, so it might be nice to change to formatting for easier reading on mobile.
- andyfleming 9y agoJust updated it. I thought there might be a way to apply blockquote styling, but the traditional markdown syntax didn't work.
- hollerith 9y agoThanks. Dang: please consider removing the code-block functionality from HN.