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by evanelias 2mo ago
My point is that the number will entirely vary for each user, depending on how many poor DB-related infra decisions they've made. Some users may save 99%, others may save almost nothing, right? So why say 40% here? Where did this numbe
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by evanelias 2mo ago
> cut database costs by 40% Where does this number come from? It feels completely arbitrary.
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by evanelias 2mo ago
> MySQL You still haven't indicated what version. For example there's a substantial join planner improvement in the latest LTS (MySQL 9.7). And in any case the original thread was about MariaDB, not MySQL. > I disagree OK, b
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by evanelias 2mo ago
"Mid thirties" is absolutely not a common definition of mid life. For reference, Wikipedia defines "middle age" as being the age range from 40 to 64, based on citing nine different sources: https://en.wikipedi
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by evanelias 2mo ago
The query planners have diverged between MySQL and MariaDB; which one are you talking about? Both have received improvements in recent years, so the specific version is relevant as well. And at least both systems have supported index hints
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by evanelias 2mo ago
It's a large ecosystem with multiple server vendors (Oracle MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, VillageSQL) that are relatively easy to migrate between, compared to moving to a completely different DBMS ecosystem. Sometimes there are valid techni
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by evanelias 2mo ago
I don't see how that would be a realistic risk? Any MariaDB user (including Lobste.rs) could request the source, and per the GPL it must be supplied, so this isn't an effective strategy for any entity to go closed-source. And in a
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by evanelias 2mo ago
Some of the cited reasons for moving off MariaDB [1] seem misguided, in my opinion. Especially the part about "K1 are very enterprise-focused, so the database is likely to focus its work on features that are not relevant to us. There&#
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by evanelias 2mo ago
How do you figure? Commodore had strong sales through the late 80s, and the C64 wasn't discontinued until 1994. My family's C64 was the first computer I ever used, and I am barely in my mid 40s. And although my family later purcha
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by evanelias 3mo ago
Yeah, this article was clearly written by someone too young to have any solid understanding of the time period they're attempting to describe. For starters, they don't seem to realize that AOL usage at the time was still very much
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by evanelias 3mo ago
I don't like JS either, but lots of people do. And if you're expanding a DB beyond SQL-only, JS is an obvious first choice before adding further languages from there. (The MySQL feature is called "Multilingual Engine Componen
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by evanelias 3mo ago
> This continues the faulty line of thinking that open source is just for hobby-level projects or early startup throwaway infrastructure. How so? I don't understand your comment at all. A huge chunk of the world's economy runs
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by evanelias 3mo ago
If you've ever had to work with nontrivial procs in MySQL/MariaDB, it's immediately clear how the status quo is deficient there, and why e.g. Postgres's multi-language support is so much better in comparison. And how is
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by evanelias 3mo ago
I don't think your last sentence is fair. Many workloads don't need something like Galera, as standard async replication scales to extreme levels, and you can achieve excellent HA with external orchestration and/or proxies. F
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by evanelias 3mo ago
I had the same immediate reaction. It's a completely nonsensical comparison which just demonstrates the author is extremely confused about the relationship between MySQL and MariaDB, in terms of their corporate entities and project str
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by evanelias 3mo ago
Same! They actually still put out new issues, in the form of a new 4-issue mini series roughly once per year. It's the only comic book I regularly read as an adult. Pretty amazing that Sergio is still doing this at age 88!
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by evanelias 3mo ago
Despite the mediocrity of the Garfield comic strip, I think a lot of Garfield's enduring popularity among late Gen X / early Millennials can be attributed to the late 80s Garfield and Friends cartoon [1]. It was actually funny, la
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by evanelias 3mo ago
> The DJ analogy is useful actually. Maybe, but the author's DJ analogy in the post was rather off the mark. Skill-wise, DJing is actually a perfect example of "it used to be hard" in pretty much every aspect -- beatmatchi
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by evanelias 4mo ago
Even when MySQL development velocity was more rapid, they maintained binary table format compatibility across major version upgrades the vast majority of the time. Literally the only exception I can think of, which necessitated a table rebu
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by evanelias 4mo ago
More accurately, MariaDB has Galera for that. MySQL Galera is EOL in a few months [1], which is understandable given the change in ownership. [1] https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/upgrade-now-announcing-my...
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by evanelias 4mo ago
Same here, I was just about to comment about this exact problem with TIAA specifically, after receiving yet another marketing spam email from them today. For a while they all had a footer like "This service communication provides infor
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by evanelias 4mo ago
I'm sure they still exist here, but the economic realities make it challenging in my area (NYC)... even smaller events must be totally oversold, in order for the promoters to not go broke. So it's hard to find room to dance, and t
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by evanelias 4mo ago
In the US, it's been a concept for almost the entire time the scene has existed. In the early 90s, PLUR was popularized by Frankie Bones, who had essentially founded the east coast US scene a few years prior. By the late 90s it was mor
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by evanelias 4mo ago
Take another look at this blog's index https://kingy.ai/category/blog/ and click through more posts, and pay attention to the post dates. Do you really think this singular author is writing multiple excessive
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by evanelias 5mo ago
Reading means downloading. Downloading is equivalent to making a copy. To make a copy of a copyrighted work, you need a license, unless your activity is fair use. Licenses have terms and conditions that must be followed, such as retaining a
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by evanelias 5mo ago
> I also agree that there is a place for other licenses. It's better that there's space for kinda-open, rather than it being open vs completely closed repositories. That's good to hear, sincere apologies for assuming other
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by evanelias 5mo ago
Totally agreed. They don't have a trademark, and their superfans have no right to tell people how to capitalize or punctuate the term. I also get the sense that the author has an inherently negative view of non-OSI-approved "sourc
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by evanelias 5mo ago
> The final sentence says it all Not sure if the article was edited later, but there are five sentences after that one, expanding on the author's reasoning for their position. > Next time, lead with that. The post is titled &quot
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by evanelias 5mo ago
"smaller custom data centers into public cloud" is talking about their Azure migration, so "multi cloud" would almost certainly mean extending a presence into AWS and/or GCP (or maybe others like OCI). I'm sorr
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by evanelias 5mo ago
We can clearly draw a conclusion that their availability is getting worse, but that's not what your original comment claimed. You said "I can't really remember any significant downtime before the Microsoft acquisition and the

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