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

Hi!

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Milen A. Radev <milen(at)radev(dot)net> wrote:
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> > "When "clever" goes wrong: how Etsy overcame poor architectural choices"
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> > http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/when-clever-goes-wrong-how-etsy-overcame-poor-architectural-choices.ars
> >
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> This is very well written. It almost sounds like the problem was
> caused by Postgres.

I didn't read it that way. It seemed like a cautionary tale about
overuse of stored procedures to express business logic in a company
that had serious scaling and operational and communication problems
between DBAs, sysadmins and developers. The new-hires turned to a
technology stack that was well understood. And in the end, the article
mentions that they still have Postgres at the core.

I see this as a wake up call that our advocacy needs to focus on the
case studies, like that of Urban Airship, to demonstrate how to scale
infrastructure with Postgres. Keeping this information either secret
or difficult to find results in throwing out or scaling back use of
Postgres.

-selena
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