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Generally speaking, there are many levels of “if you know what you are doing.” - The system warns about unsafe usage at either compile time or runtime, and you
by btown 6y ago
Generally speaking, there are many levels of “if you know what you are doing.”
- The system warns about unsafe usage at either compile time or runtime, and you ignore at your peril.
- The system does not warn, but official documentation is consistently verbose about what is required for safety.
- Official documentation isn’t consistently helpful and can be downright dangerous, but the community picks up the slack.
- The company gaslights the community into believing it is possible for a non-core-team member to “know what they are doing” from one of the above levels when Jepsen provides written evidence that this is not true.
I’m fine with things that are the third level from the top. I like to live dangerously. But I don’t think anyone can look at that last level and say “people are giving informed consent to this.”
- virgilp 6y agoThe problem is that if you know what you are doing (I.e. you configure MongoDB to be safe) you may lose all reason to use it (no longer has the same performance, of course)