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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by anarazel on Thursday January 24, 2019 @03:06PM (#18992405)
The IAM stuff requires using a few hooks, at most adding minor modifications that could be upstreamed. Storage is obviously harder, but I and others are working on making that pluggable in core. Amazon's core contribution, from a few smaller things like commandline tools: 0.

Sorry, not buying it.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by CWuestefeld on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:22PM (#18993100)
While not offering commits, I was under the impression that Amazon had contributed some funding. But I just went off searching for that, and can't find any evidence of this either.

Anybody know anything about them contributing money rather than code?

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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by anarazel on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:24PM (#18993116)
They've provided AWS credits, yes.
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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by scarface74 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @03:10PM (#18992440)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

or

"It couldn't be that hard. I could make a Twitter clone in a week by hiring some people from UpWork"

Did I mention point in time recovery or the architecture behind Serverless Aurora?

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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by anarazel on Thursday January 24, 2019 @03:16PM (#18992491)
Yea, right... I don't know anything about how hard this stuff is, I'm just a postgres developer & committer, currently working on making postgres' storage pluggable.
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