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> I wonder what this ultimately cost. > That’s a lot of engineer time to develop, test, and do the data migration. Downtime is more expensive. EDIT: Also, t
by znpy 6y ago
> I wonder what this ultimately cost.
> That’s a lot of engineer time to develop, test, and do the data migration.
Downtime is more expensive.
EDIT: Also, the article says that they spent at least two months a year planning and executiting database upgrades, since the OpsManager tool from MongoDB Inc wasn't able to help.
- sokoloff 6y agoTwo months a year planning and executing upgrades isn't that outrageous-sounding to me. We did that for years on a commercially supported RDBMS (MS-SQL Enterprise in our case). It wasn't the whole engineering organization, but the overall "scale existing capabilities" effort was a 3K-10K hour project every year depending on how extensive the work was.
- znpy 6y agoWell it kinda is if you bought a product that supposedly lets you do upgrades easily, from the vendor itself, and also have the support package from the vendor.