Re:Moving our warehouse off DuckDB
by hinkley on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:25PM
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Once the avalanche starts it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Yes, when decision can be delayed, that is powerful. But we are discussing decisions that have already been made which need to be unmade or made again. Where it breaks is when the tech debt is growing faster than our expertise. The usual stall is not to allow time to apply resources to the problem but to continue to not apply resources to the problem. So our knowledge base is growing at a negligible rate. Particularly if you’re a first mover. Nobody will solve your problems better than you have until it’s far too late to migrate to their solutions.
Yes, when decision can be delayed, that is powerful. But we are discussing decisions that have already been made which need to be unmade or made again. Where it breaks is when the tech debt is growing faster than our expertise. The usual stall is not to allow time to apply resources to the problem but to continue to not apply resources to the problem. So our knowledge base is growing at a negligible rate. Particularly if you’re a first mover. Nobody will solve your problems better than you have until it’s far too late to migrate to their solutions.