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Re:The GitHub Availability Report by nkozyra on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:56AM (#23857659)
Boy in 2020 I can't see describing databases as difficult to scale. Expensive, sure, but these are solved problems, and the tradeoffs for going the NoSQL route will likely exceed its perceived benefits.

Modern relational databases are great at what they do.

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Re:The GitHub Availability Report by m0xte on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:47AM (#23857992)
They are until they're not, at which point it's too late. I deal with things teetering on the edge.

At some point you get to machine sizes that won't fit in AWS as an example.

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Re:The GitHub Availability Report by nkozyra on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:51AM (#23858016)
That's true of, well, anything. A non-RDS / NoSQL datastore doesn't save you here!
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Re:The GitHub Availability Report by bob1029 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:21PM (#23860517)
It's more about the granularity of the architecture than it is any specific technology used within it.
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