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Re:We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hack... by quest88 on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @12:20AM (#16808007)
Why isn't MySQL serious? It has powered many popular sites.
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Re:We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hack... by attaboyjon on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @12:59AM (#16808175)
You are right. It is a solid DB. I was more pointing out that if you have to move off Mysql, there are excellent options other than adopting a new columnar datastore.
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Re:We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hack... by zimpenfish on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:45AM (#16809486)
> Why isn't MySQL serious? It has powered many popular sites.

As has PHP. "popularity" isn't really evidence for it being a "serious" tool, is it?

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Re:We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hack... by eeZah7Ux on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:50PM (#16816078)
Why the downvotes? Popularity != quality.
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