tobi

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   by tobi 17y ago

   who bought it?
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   by tobi 18y ago

   Replication has nothing to do with scalability in most cases. Replication is how you reduce downtime! It's the same reason why Raid5 is more then useless in a web server - if a disk dies it has to reboot and has to reconstruct data for hour
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   by tobi 18y ago

   First of all, at the time 5k was completely unrealistic. I've worked for nearly 20 months without salary on Shopify before launching it and all my last savings went to pay (very low) salaries to my friends and colleagues who agreed to work
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   by tobi 18y ago

   We actually launched Shopify beta on Postgres. One of the last things we setup before launch (literally 2 days before) was replication. This was foolish by us but there was a lot on our plates back in the day. We spent the entire weekend se
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   by tobi 18y ago

   Maybe for some use cases but most people on this site are concerned about scaling web sites where scaling up (which is what you suggest) isn't feasible because of the obvious cap to the approach and the fact that you can't even add your own