Re:Netflix Billing Migration to AWS
by Rodeoclash on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @07:06PM
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Because knowing how they worked through the decision to come to a conclusion on using a particular product is valuable.
Postgres is usually the first choice for applications like this so knowing why they chose something else over that could influence others that need to make a similar decision.
Re:Netflix Billing Migration to AWS
by thinkingkong on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @08:01PM
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When you say usually you probably mean "currently, usually" or "in the last x years usually".
Netflix has super smart people. They arent just picking random tools off the shelf and implementing things without constraints for the sake of it.
Right, which is why asking how they came to that decision (instead of using a DB dating back over three decades of development) is useful and reasonable.
A large company describes their very real efforts and shares their experience and knowledge, and the first comment is "Why not use <preferred thing> instead?".