First: Andy Pavlo was contacted by the author of the article. He's all but random, he's one of the references in the field. The outage was quite minor, not us

First: Andy Pavlo was contacted by the author of the article. He's all but random, he's one of the references in the field. The outage was quite minor, not user visible and cost something around 100k. I've seen such outages after an Oracle version upgrade so it's all but major. For your information I've been managing critical databases for more than a decade so I know that it might look unusual to you, but it's quite clear to anyone barely knowledgeable about database management that the article really overblown the issue. It was also mocked by Amazon's CTO. So please, manage databases for a few years. Then I might hear your opinion and maybe consider it.