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Not parent, but at {work} we made a similar move, from Azure managed postgres to self-managed postgres. I elaborated a litle on why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24607…

Just to provide a counter statement; at $work we definatively do not have the appropriate headcount to even start considering running our own distrubuted datastores. However, we _d…

I assume you're using ZFS filesystem for the transparant compression, what's your opninion/experience on using ZFS on cloud storage? I mean; the EBS disks are already redundantly s…

We ran a Postgres DBaaS offering of Azure for 2 years before we switched over to a self-managed (IaaS) Postgres installation. Couldn't be happier. The primary reason was the desire…

I dislike WSL(2) with a passion. Sure, it makes some Linux oriented workloads possible on a Windows workstation, but my gut feeling tells me all it will really accomplish in the lo…