Re: An article about Etsy... and a migration from Postgres to MySQL

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Milen A. Radev <milen@radev.net> wrote:
>
>> "When "clever" goes wrong: how Etsy overcame poor architectural choices"
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/when-clever-goes-wrong-how-etsy-overcame-poor-architectural-choices.ars
>>
>
> This is very well written. It almost sounds like the problem was
> caused by Postgres.
>
> I take it as first evidence of a marketing department at the new MySQL
> team. Hats off, guys and happy list monitoring.
>
> I think we should keep the quote on our website to remind people...
>
> "Etsy is the sum total of its data, so when it came to choosing where
> to store our critical information there was only one sound choice.
> PostgreSQL's strong emphasis on quality, stability, and data integrity
> contribute to making it the premier open source database."
>

I don't see that quote in the article.  I also saw comments talking about the
article being rewritten. -- Darren Duncan