buchanmilne

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by buchanmilne 4y ago
You don't need to use a separate provider to address the problem here, where using a separate provider may not address the problem at all: > "We're fully redundant across AZs, regions, and even cloud providers!" crows
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by buchanmilne 4y ago
> Amazon is AWS's biggest customer, but I've never been told to compress things with zstd while working at AWS. You may have switched transparently to using it (e.g. for your application log files), via internal Amazon tooling
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by buchanmilne 5y ago
> At Shopify, we had some serious issues at the time (~2014) with either LMDB or the Go driver that we couldn't resolve after several months Is there an issue/bug for this somewhere?
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by buchanmilne 5y ago
The article says: > Why? All the crash test dummies are male. Even the “female” dummies the government requires in tests are just smaller versions of male dummies. Wait, so are there or aren't there female dummies? Secondly, does &q
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by buchanmilne 5y ago
You said: > it's all very well to say "expect to lose an AZ" but during this outage it's not been physically possible to remove the broken AZ instances from multi-AZ services because we cannot physically get them to r
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by buchanmilne 5y ago
> Is there another level of patches below point releases for backported security patches No, because its unecessary (in my experience) > or are your options to upgrade to something that adds new features and may be backwards incompati
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by buchanmilne 5y ago
MySQL GA dates: 5.5 3 December 2010 5.6 5 February 2013 5.7 21 October 2015 8.0 19 April 2018 The average seems to be about 2.5 years between minor releases, so this doesn't seem unusual. Usually new minor versions are only released if
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by buchanmilne 5y ago
> Nobody expects defaults to change between patch/minor versions. Can you provide an example of an application-side (IOW, not a DB-infrastructure-type variable) that has changed it's default in a patch version after GA in 5.7
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by buchanmilne 5y ago
> replication options like multi-source MySQL 5.7 supports multi-source replication: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/replication-channels... > spider for sharding and galera are all built i