mthomassen

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   by mthomassen 5y ago

   Not parent, but at {work} we made a similar move, from Azure managed postgres to self-managed postgres. I elaborated a litle on why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24607664 but boils down to; - enormous performan
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   by mthomassen 6y ago

   Just to provide a counter statement; at $work we definatively do not have the appropriate headcount to even start considering running our own distrubuted datastores. However, we _do_ use Cassandra. And while many persons shared the sentimen
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   by mthomassen 6y ago

   I assume you're using ZFS filesystem for the transparant compression, what's your opninion/experience on using ZFS on cloud storage? I mean; the EBS disks are already redundantly stored by AWS and the COW mechanism could lead
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   by mthomassen 6y ago

   We ran a Postgres DBaaS offering of Azure for 2 years before we switched over to a self-managed (IaaS) Postgres installation. Couldn't be happier. The primary reason was the desire to use extensions; I'm now able to use Foreign Da