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Diane most likely chose MySQL because it was the most popular open-source database. Popularity is often reason enough to choose a particular tool, because it me

Diane most likely chose MySQL because it was the most popular open-source database. Popularity is often reason enough to choose a particular tool, because it means that that tool is more likely to be supported by other good tools.

VLM 13y ago
"Popularity is often reason enough to choose a particular tool" Widely available, many eyes searching for (and patching) security bugs, many people can understand and debug it, probably the most documentation out there, its the simplest possible overall way to do it, she's not exactly doing anything new, so using a tried and true successful solution is good business and sound engineering practice. So, the cub scouts are building birdhouses this year, again. Last year we used hammers. I found a nailgun recently invented in the black forest region of Germany which shoots a special birdhouse domain-specific-nail thats a precise metric size specialized for this kind of wood and building birdhouses, unlike local nailguns which use an air compressor or .22 blanks, this one uses compressed unicorn gas, which everyone who's cool knows it doesn't smell, and its brand new and I'm the only guy this side of the pond who knows anything about this new nailgun and the only guy who can use it or maintain it, and it cuts hammering time down from 5 minutes per birdhouse to 5 milliseconds even though theres no business case to care. Oh no wait I'll just bring some hammers again this year. But old fashioned obsolete hammers don't scale to 10B units! Oh that's OK the school gym where we have pack meetings only holds 500 and usually only about 20 scouts show up anyway and the countries population is only 400M, so I'm all good. And given other business constraints the scout pack is permanently constrained to grow slower than I can buy more hammers. Yeah, looks like a job for a hammer, its hammer time... Would I roof a house with a hammer, well no, but I'm not roofing a house so I don't much care.

VLM 13y ago

"Popularity is often reason enough to choose a particular tool" Widely available, many eyes searching for (and patching) security bugs, many people can understand and debug it, probably the most documentation out there, its the simplest possible overall way to do it, she's not exactly doing anything new, so using a tried and true successful solution is good business and sound engineering practice. So, the cub scouts are building birdhouses this year, again. Last year we used hammers. I found a nailgun recently invented in the black forest region of Germany which shoots a special birdhouse domain-specific-nail thats a precise metric size specialized for this kind of wood and building birdhouses, unlike local nailguns which use an air compressor or .22 blanks, this one uses compressed unicorn gas, which everyone who's cool knows it doesn't smell, and its brand new and I'm the only guy this side of the pond who knows anything about this new nailgun and the only guy who can use it or maintain it, and it cuts hammering time down from 5 minutes per birdhouse to 5 milliseconds even though theres no business case to care. Oh no wait I'll just bring some hammers again this year. But old fashioned obsolete hammers don't scale to 10B units! Oh that's OK the school gym where we have pack meetings only holds 500 and usually only about 20 scouts show up anyway and the countries population is only 400M, so I'm all good. And given other business constraints the scout pack is permanently constrained to grow slower than I can buy more hammers. Yeah, looks like a job for a hammer, its hammer time... Would I roof a house with a hammer, well no, but I'm not roofing a house so I don't much care.