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thanks again dajonker, that's more good feedback.

At the time we made the decision, we had a very small number of Postgres DB's in production and a large number of MySQL DB's in production. We had built up a LOT of excellent opera…

Hi, Rich, blog author here again. Your feedback is super fair. That is how it comes across in the blog. In the talk that came before the blog post, I go into a lot more detail here…

Hi! I’m Rich, the blog post author. Thanks for the candid feedback :-) This blog post is somewhat a written summarization of a 25 -> 30 minute conference tech talk that I gave at S…

Thanks for taking the time to read our blog post and for sharing your thoughts! For us, the concept of “standard” technology is not about whether it’s proprietary or open source, m…

We've deliberately chosen to accept vendor lock-in with AWS. I probably should have made that explicit in the blog post. We believe that the value we get from going all-in on AWS i…

Hey all, I'm the blog author, Rich Archbold from Intercom. Just to clarify … I wrote this blog, with the exaggerated / cliched title, to try to speak to the large cohort of over-co…