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Re:Just use Postgres for everything by pushedx on Saturday December 10, 2022 @03:51PM (#33936658)
Which is exactly why if you aren’t a database vendor, you shouldn’t have your engineers spend their time maintaining a proprietary database technology.
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Re:Just use Postgres for everything by otabdeveloper4 on Sunday December 11, 2022 @06:19AM (#33942247)
If you maintaining a proprietary database technology solves a problem that provides some shareholder value, then go ahead and do it.

Maintaining off the shelf software that you got from Github provides no shareholder value whatsoever, however. It is a pure cost center.

As a CTO you do not want to be the guy that runs a pure cost center department.

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