Re: Uber moving towards MySQL

While I love PG to death and prosthelytize as much as possible; I
don't have much experience replicating MySQL or PostgreSQL and I find
I always run a little flat in this debate, as most complaints are
about replication problems.

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Robert Bernier <robert7390@comcast.net> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> https://ayende.com/blog/175137/re-why-uber-engineering-switched-from-postgres-to-mysql
>
> This is getting serious; two popularized articles on hacker news now slamming postgres.
>
> I've read and caught up on our mailthread regarding the technical issues.
>
> Although no way near as knowledgeable as many of you regarding the inner workings of MySQL, let alone postgres, I do
howeverrecognize navel gazing when I see it. The first article starting this thread was a convoluted justification of
one'sown religion. This second article is pure commercial leveraging of a thread that's garnered a lot of attention. 
>
> It's time a response from the postgres community was forthcoming.
>
>
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> Robert Bernier
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> On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 04:57:28 PM Santiago Zarate wrote:
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> Has anyone read the following article?, i'm personlally inclined to think
>> that some of these problems could have been addressed with enough
>> expertise.
>>
>> At our company we may move to PostgreSQL for one of our core products (we
>> use oracle), and a colleague came with this today. While this started a
>> very heated discussion on our side... I wonder, what do you guys think
>>
>> https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/
>>
>>
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