b_chicago

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   by b_chicago 13y ago

   It seems like the Wikimedia article has turned more people on to MariaDB - but what about Percona? I'm ignorant about the differences. Does anyone have a good 3-way comparison?
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   by b_chicago 14y ago

   Ah, yes. Did my run in trading. Pay (and experience) is great if you have the stomach for it. I found it soul-sucking and ultimately left. You are correct though, trading is extremely lucrative, not even getting into the other benefits.
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   by b_chicago 14y ago

   Depends on where you're living I suppose. In Chicago, a base of $100k/yr for a systems architect seems fair. In the Bay area and other areas that are more expensive, it will probably be more expensive, but I'm not as familiar with those mar
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   by b_chicago 14y ago

   Having a platform to simply deploy code is great, but there seems to be a lot of hate for sysadmins over the past few years. Heroku and the like are fine for prototyping and small apps, but when you start developing complicated and/or popul