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I don't think this is cynical, it's a restatement of the "nobody gets fired for buying IBM" adage. Choosing PlanetScale at this stage in its market penetration
by mayank 5y ago
I don't think this is cynical, it's a restatement of the "nobody gets fired for buying IBM" adage. Choosing PlanetScale at this stage in its market penetration is almost certainly going to be seen as the riskier business choice over RDS Aurora (even though it's not quite apples:apples) or GCP Spanner (which is). You can choose to spend your innovation token there, but you better be prepared for the downside when PlanetScale goes down and everything else is up.
- WFHRenaissance 5y agoI love the Innovation Token blog post, but. it's been a while since I've seen the OG post. Do you have a link?
- alexjurkiewicz 5y agohttp://boringtechnology.club/ http://boringtechnology.club/
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoI have my problems with this statement mostly because IBM actually does suck. The amount of products its bought and promptly did a full thrust crash into the ground are many. AWS has its problems but 99.99999% of the time the "core" products perfectly fine, I dont know about its multitude of side-hustles though.
- r_hoods_ghost 5y agoI think you're missing the context that the adage "nobody gets fired for buying IBM" dates back to the 1970s at least. It's not meant to refer to IBM as it is now, but rather to IBM as it was then, an industrial behemoth with a near monopoly on business machines, some of which happened to be general purpose computers.
- kupopuffs 5y agoIBM used to be good