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Backwards compatibility in connection with the headline above is interesting

• wongarsu 3y ago
  They are giving two years notice. With a clear migration path with step-by-step instructions (linked in the article). And since MariaBD and MySQL are more-or-less drop-in replacements of each other it should also be a painless transition for most. That's not perfect, but much better than when last year GCP retired IoT Cloud Core with just one year notice, a much less public announcement (an email to affected customers and a note on the product page) and no clear migration path.
  • mastax 3y ago
    Two years' notice is more of an Apple-like deprecation timeline.
    • theownan 3y ago
      [dead]
    • jdmg94 3y ago
      bit of a cheap shot considering Apple doesn't offer cloud services...
  • amtamt 3y ago
    > since MariaBD and MySQL are more-or-less drop-in replacements of each other Not anymore for a while, unless application developer has been very careful in using DB features. Also, there are things like how indexing differs in two. If ORMs have been used, without a good DBA being available... there are many landmines on the migration path.