shrug Everyone hates on MySQL, and I have my periods of hate as well (mostly I think they boil down to actually hating the Developers of MySQL, not the actual s

shrug Everyone hates on MySQL, and I have my periods of hate as well (mostly I think they boil down to actually hating the Developers of MySQL, not the actual software)... But the thing is that for our purposes MySQL works and works well 99.9% of the time. Additionally the actual big, real issues/beefs people have with MySQL are mostly fixed in 5.6 (multi-threaded slaves (really guys, you should have fixed that years ago), online ALTER TABLE (again... wtf, why was that not fixed years ago)). He also is hating on PHP in that article, which seems like prime HN bait, because as it does every time there is a PHP hate article on here, everyone actually doing real work comes and and says 'Okay, have fun with your rubies and nodes'. With all that said, recently a lot of our data has started to be organized outside of MySQL (a lot more Couchbase and Solr usage), but MySQL is still there driving the core data. I'd say it all boils down to right tool for the job.