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Honestly, I work at a FAANG and, sadly, the answer is often a combination of people paying absolutely zero attention to tech that's NIH (e.g. SWEs working on DB
by JustLurking2022 3y ago
Honestly, I work at a FAANG and, sadly, the answer is often a combination of people paying absolutely zero attention to tech that's NIH (e.g. SWEs working on DBs who have never used Postgres) and the fact that no one gets promoted for implementing a solution using 3rd party software. The system is setup such that you need to show you've developed something of sufficient complexity, and using OSS just doesn't look good in that context.
- threeseed 3y ago> DBs who have never used Postgres PostgreSQL is great for single instances but is poor when it comes to high availability and horizontal scalability. Be curious what use cases where engineers are writing their own database but it is single instance.
- JustLurking2022 3y agoI'd expect an engineer designing a new database, even for internal use, to be familiar with the competition's strengths/weaknesses even if they're going in a different direction.