The original TC article made me feel rather upset. What kind of journalist takes that kind of tone and makes personal attacks against anyone? Arrington has done

The original TC article made me feel rather upset. What kind of journalist takes that kind of tone and makes personal attacks against anyone? Arrington has done this repeatedly over the last few months. Startups have to strike a balance between getting the architecture right and getting a product out the door. The bright and lucky ones come up with a minimally correct infrastructure which is approximately equal to what they can hammer out with their existing resources in the least amount of time. Most of the time, teams aren't experienced or lucky enough to pull that off, in which case it makes sense to try to fail early --- this means not spending time on infrastructure. They get the concept out, and see if anyone wants it at all. There's no point in releasing a product which scales to 100 million concurrent users if no one wants it. In its early days, Twitter must have done what it could to get its service up and working, and used MySQL for the same reason you (yes, you!) use it: the team was familiar with it, and was used to either stuffing code with SQL strings or using an ORM. After the service took off, a lot of things could have happened. Has Arrington bothered to ask Blaine Cook if he had the resources to do The Right Thing? Did Blaine have the time, or did his company tell him to sit in front a glowing screen and do CPR while the CEO goes out to raise cash? A journalist should have at least indicated that he attempted to hear the other side of the story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism