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Such is life. This perspective seems coming from an application developer who is seeing the database as an extension of the app. When you're big enough to hav

Such is life. This perspective seems coming from an application developer who is seeing the database as an extension of the app. When you're big enough to have a database ops team, they will come with a different perspective, and most likely be highly skeptical of storing schema changes in the database. If your're not too cool for MySQL, check out skeema.io for a declarative, platform-agnostic approach to schema management and path to happiness.

klysm 3y ago
Your comment is written like you have a undisclosed stake in skeema.io
- evanelias 3y ago
  Founder of skeema.io here. GP is a fan and does not have a stake in the company. Skeema is used by several hundred companies, including GitHub, Twilio, and Etsy. We have a lot of fans in the MySQL community, and just because someone enjoys the product does not mean they’re a shill.
  - klysm 3y ago
    Thanks for the clarification, and I wasn’t suggesting he was a shill - it just sounded like it and typically such claims and prefixed with a disclaimer on HN
- montroser 3y ago
  Nope, it just made my life better and I want others who feel the pain in TFA to know there are options.
  - evanelias 3y ago
    Thank you for spreading the word, I greatly appreciate it. Building a bootstrapped product/business in the MySQL space has been quite challenging. Most newer entrants in the schema management space are VC-funded, and went wide instead of deep in terms of the range of supported DBs. I personally believe in deep expert-level coverage of a specific DB, resulting in better functionality and a safer schema management toolchain. However it does make word-of-mouth more challenging, since MySQL is unpopular here. So often these blog posts don’t mention Skeema, since blog authors coming from other DBs haven’t ever encountered it.
brainbag 3y ago
I'm not too cool for MySQL, but PostgreSQL has been the default anywhere I've been in fifteen years. Is anybody aware of something equivalent for pg? I see a lot of old projects that aren't getting updates anymore.

klysm 3y ago

Your comment is written like you have a undisclosed stake in skeema.io

evanelias 3y ago
Founder of skeema.io here. GP is a fan and does not have a stake in the company. Skeema is used by several hundred companies, including GitHub, Twilio, and Etsy. We have a lot of fans in the MySQL community, and just because someone enjoys the product does not mean they’re a shill.
- klysm 3y ago
  Thanks for the clarification, and I wasn’t suggesting he was a shill - it just sounded like it and typically such claims and prefixed with a disclaimer on HN
montroser 3y ago
Nope, it just made my life better and I want others who feel the pain in TFA to know there are options.
- evanelias 3y ago
  Thank you for spreading the word, I greatly appreciate it. Building a bootstrapped product/business in the MySQL space has been quite challenging. Most newer entrants in the schema management space are VC-funded, and went wide instead of deep in terms of the range of supported DBs. I personally believe in deep expert-level coverage of a specific DB, resulting in better functionality and a safer schema management toolchain. However it does make word-of-mouth more challenging, since MySQL is unpopular here. So often these blog posts don’t mention Skeema, since blog authors coming from other DBs haven’t ever encountered it.

brainbag 3y ago

I'm not too cool for MySQL, but PostgreSQL has been the default anywhere I've been in fifteen years. Is anybody aware of something equivalent for pg? I see a lot of old projects that aren't getting updates anymore.