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100% agreed. a lift-and-shift migration to Galera and modern MariaDB wouldnt be hard, but knowing MS there are mid managers waiting in the wings to swoop in an

100% agreed. a lift-and-shift migration to Galera and modern MariaDB wouldnt be hard, but knowing MS there are mid managers waiting in the wings to swoop in and drive this into the ground with azure/sqlserver, the former of which posted 8 outages in the past 90 days alone. this is classic Microsoft. spend a ton of money for something very valuable -- in this case virtually all developer marketshare -- and then casually pedal it into the ground while you lie about the KPI's to C levels (IIS marketshare on netcraft as a function of parked websites at GoDaddy to dominate over Apache) and keep it on life support with other revenue streams (XBox) for the next 16 quarters until it becomes a repulsive enough carbuncle to shareholders that it gets the axe (Microsoft phone.) then in a year, limp into the barn with another product nobody else but you could afford to buy (minecraft) and slowly turn it into a KPI farm for Microsoft account metrics to drive some other failing product (Azure) and keep the C level happy while you alienate virtually every player with mechanics or requirements they hate.

throwusawayus 5y ago
galera is not a solution for scaling out writes, full stop galera has lower max writes/sec than a traditional async single master because it's a cluster. the other members of the cluster need to ack the writes, and all members are doing all the writes, so adding machines does not increase your max writes
prepend 5y ago
It’s funny you mention Minecraft. My kids recently said “I hate Microsoft. All they did is ruin Mojang.” They don’t know Microsoft for anything other than ruining Minecraft. They didn’t know Microsoft made the Xbox or even Windows. They made this statement after Microsoft forced them to migrate their account they’ve had for 5 years to a Microsoft account. That broke their computer for a few days and reset their games. For no useful reason.
- wyclif 5y ago
  My son is eleven years old, a huge Minecraft fan, and is exactly like that. Now, he does know that MSFT makes Windows, but that's not an existential threat to him like ruining Minecraft is.
  - illustrateth 5y ago
    yes! i signed up for an account here just so i could say this. we got refurbished computers for my children just to play Minecraft. Minecraft didnt work in windows, so i set up a dual boot Ubuntu system (while biting my nails i might totally destroy the os), thatnwas working well for months. when they had to migrate their account, somehow it switched my daughter's local login to a Microsoft family login which screwed up her other apps (like adventure academy). im tearing my hair out trying to figure out how to switch it back to a local login. i already have two other apps for monitoring computer time (which already don't always work out as well as youd think, so i didnt want to really have to deal with a third one.) i guess ill eventually figure it out, but found this page looking for a solution. (and im not that techy right now, so it takes a good chunk of time.... sigh
- deckard1 5y ago
  wait until Microsoft starts screwing up Blizzard IP. Or, I guess, screwing it up more than Activision-Blizzard already did...
andrew_ 5y ago
Looking for education here: in reading my understanding of MairaDB was that it's not as well suited to large databases and heavy read/write performance in those databases, as compared with Postgres. Would the primary argument be for MariaDB's sharding support first-class?

throwusawayus 5y ago

galera is not a solution for scaling out writes, full stop galera has lower max writes/sec than a traditional async single master because it's a cluster. the other members of the cluster need to ack the writes, and all members are doing all the writes, so adding machines does not increase your max writes

prepend 5y ago

It’s funny you mention Minecraft. My kids recently said “I hate Microsoft. All they did is ruin Mojang.” They don’t know Microsoft for anything other than ruining Minecraft. They didn’t know Microsoft made the Xbox or even Windows. They made this statement after Microsoft forced them to migrate their account they’ve had for 5 years to a Microsoft account. That broke their computer for a few days and reset their games. For no useful reason.

wyclif 5y ago
My son is eleven years old, a huge Minecraft fan, and is exactly like that. Now, he does know that MSFT makes Windows, but that's not an existential threat to him like ruining Minecraft is.
- illustrateth 5y ago
  yes! i signed up for an account here just so i could say this. we got refurbished computers for my children just to play Minecraft. Minecraft didnt work in windows, so i set up a dual boot Ubuntu system (while biting my nails i might totally destroy the os), thatnwas working well for months. when they had to migrate their account, somehow it switched my daughter's local login to a Microsoft family login which screwed up her other apps (like adventure academy). im tearing my hair out trying to figure out how to switch it back to a local login. i already have two other apps for monitoring computer time (which already don't always work out as well as youd think, so i didnt want to really have to deal with a third one.) i guess ill eventually figure it out, but found this page looking for a solution. (and im not that techy right now, so it takes a good chunk of time.... sigh
deckard1 5y ago
wait until Microsoft starts screwing up Blizzard IP. Or, I guess, screwing it up more than Activision-Blizzard already did...

andrew_ 5y ago

Looking for education here: in reading my understanding of MairaDB was that it's not as well suited to large databases and heavy read/write performance in those databases, as compared with Postgres. Would the primary argument be for MariaDB's sharding support first-class?