throwawayy98121

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   by throwawayy98121 7y ago

   Sad that such a blatant ad makes it to front page of HN. Not sure how much I trust Google, but I trust these guys even less. The blog is an emotional rant. Not a single example of Google breaking anti trust laws. Translation - instead of co
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   by throwawayy98121 7y ago

   Isn’t the fundamental difference also use case? You would have to use Postgres if you need actual durability. AFAIK, one outage and your redis cache is gone... unless you’re running an HA cluster (which I dunno if that’s offered by redis).
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   by throwawayy98121 7y ago

   Come work at Amazon. If you can survive at Amazon, you can literally work anywhere afterwards (assuming they hire you and you’re not an asshole).
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   by throwawayy98121 7y ago

   Hi! I’m a senior engineer at Amazon. Throwaway account but I’ll try to respond to questions if anyone cares to ask. Yeah we use services heavily, but there’s plenty of teams dumping data to S3 or using a data lake. There’s also the “we need