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Curious if there's a turning point where this no longer scales, or if folks think this is acceptable for certain verticals or business cases.

Got it, yea seems this is more valuable in a big data context or when actively pressed up against scale limitations of a DB deployment. Funny on the the last piece as well - apprec…

Thanks for the reply! For the folks you worked with in the past that were excellent, were they full time DBAs in terms of their title? Or were they folks that were in other departm…

My philosophy has historically been senior+ backend engineers with database experience should be able to set up a database schema, or devops engineers on the team should have the e…

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Why would Google and Amazon be on the downdetector list or experiencing issues? Don't they have their own DNS / nameservers separate from Akamai?

Thanks for the additional context here. I think some of the administrative pain can come from having a 'sandbox' or 'qa' tier beyond dev (which in this case would be customer facin…

Would this break down if you had 10 customers that would prefer the slow channel of release, but each had their own ever so slightly different desired release pace or training requ…

Got it - that clarifies it.

Thanks for sharing! Was the beta channel that you had in the pipeline for prod? i.e. prod would have no chance of getting ahead of beta because prod was always deployed based on wh…

In your comment here, what's the distinction of advanced vs. a regular feature flag?

Thanks for the reply - yea these are great points to consider and raised a few of them. Ideally rollouts benefit all customers, and the concern is that there is some possibility th…

Would you have the staging environment share data with production or have its own infrastructure? or use feature gating? One customer may not care that it shares the same DB, but a…

Curious how you folks manage the release process with larger customers that ask for advance notice (ex: 2 weeks) or previewing of any features before release or general availabilit…

Most of these seem like fairly weak reasons at this point. Some degree of vendor lock-in is pretty much inevitable no matter what solution you go with. Limited programming language…