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Re:Netflix Billing Migration to AWS by Rodeoclash on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @07:06PM (#11950197)
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 (#11950507)
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.

Re:Netflix Billing Migration to AWS by angersock on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @08:45PM (#11950761)
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.
Re:Netflix Billing Migration to AWS by otterley on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @02:04AM (#11951861)
> Postgres is usually the first choice for applications like this

Do you have any data to substantiate this claim?