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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by nomel on Thursday October 23, 2025 @08:03PM (#45689108)
I've never had a single issue with any user after moving our databases to /dev/null.
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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by PlunderBunny on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:36PM (#45689758)
Did you route the support requests to /dev/null as well?
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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by soraminazuki on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:40PM (#45690517)
Haha, I guess support.google.com is an ACID compliant database as well.
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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by masklinn on Friday October 24, 2025 @01:23AM (#45691059)
My /dev/null of choice is https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/
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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by lgas on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:25PM (#45690072)
This is how a lot of big tech companies scale support.
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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by nomel on Friday October 24, 2025 @09:40PM (#45700737)
We've never had a support request either!
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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database by crusty_jpeg on Friday October 24, 2025 @11:35AM (#45695700)
It's great. We saw a 2000% throughput increase on our business analytics platform when we switched to a /dev/null backend.
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