Reddit: Lessons Learned From Scaling To 1 Billion Pageviews A Month

Re:Reddit: Lessons Learned From Scaling To 1 Billion Pagevie... by bcoates on Monday August 26, 2013 @06:06PM (#6280213)

Reason to use MySQL: It's easy to find people comfortable with it that won't accidentally shoot off a toe doing simple things.

The "Don't use MySQL" argument smells like the "don't use bcrypt" argument to me. You're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, for 95% of the usecases where you're doing something dumb like using MongoDB or homebrewing something, MySQL is a better choice--even if it isn't often the best choice.

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Re:Reddit: Lessons Learned From Scaling To 1 Billion Pagevie... by asdasf on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:34AM (#6283287)

I've never seen a single mysql database where there was no toe shooting happening. People just don't seem to miss their toes. In 100% of the cases where you used mysql, postgresql was a better option in every way. It isn't letting perfect be the enemy of good, it is saying "don't use bad software when there's good software available".

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