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Re:Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex by Guest42 on Friday February 26, 2021 @08:47AM (#26274686)
Yes, the number of proposed db switched I’ve seen is remarkably high. I once interviewed for a role as a database developer and was confused to find out they didn’t have the database that the role pertained to. One of the early questions in the interview was how quickly I could migrate production from ms sql to pg. Needless to say that was a gigantic red flag and I hope they found the right person for that job.

I’ve also seen a switch from rdbms to Hadoop because a company had “millions” of rows. Luckily on this one I only had to rewrite a handful of queries.

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Re:Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex by jaywalk on Friday February 26, 2021 @10:57AM (#26276042)
I've got relatively modestly-specced SQL Servers handling tables with hundreds of millions and even billions of rows without breaking a sweat. Somebody either just really wanted a new toy to play with, or has no idea what indexes are.
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Re:Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex by Guest42 on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:06AM (#26276185)
Exactly, I’ve seen Sql servers handle billions of rows with 2 thousand columns. I think also people that work too long at one company don’t realize how problems were solved elsewhere.
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Re:Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex by eloff on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:15AM (#26274938)
> I’ve also seen a switch from rdbms to Hadoop because a company had “millions” of rows. Luckily on this one I only had to rewrite a handful of queries.

Wat. That's gross. It probably costs them more per query now than the rdbms did.

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Re:Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex by Guest42 on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:07AM (#26276209)
Didn’t even think about that part because I don’t know too much about Hadoop other than it seemed impractical.
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Re:Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex by yellow_lead on Friday February 26, 2021 @10:28AM (#26275687)
I guess millions sounded like a lot to a decision maker :)
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