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I don’t buy your take at all. Isn’t this like arguing we should be running our own Postgres bare-metal instead of relying on RDS because engineers who work with
by jitl 4y ago
I don’t buy your take at all. Isn’t this like arguing we should be running our own Postgres bare-metal instead of relying on RDS because engineers who work with RDS are “dead ended” and a “layoff opportunity” and will never develop institutional knowledge about our database schema? In my experience working on all kinds of infra, I have 1000 things I need to do, and buying a product that lets me avoid worrying implementing 300 of those things myself is a no-brainer.
- xyzzy_plugh 4y agoIf you're spending time jumping through hoops with RDS, then it's very possible bare-metal will be easier. I don't believe the same is true today but in the past we did exactly this because we were spending a bunch of time banging our collective heads against some RDS idiosyncrasies and it turned out running our own Postgres was a breeze. Plenty of things can and should just simply be bought. It's not always so cut and dry, though.