I got really excited because I read the heading as Netflix migration costs paid for by AWS. I thought they worked out deal to get a free tier during migration. Wow...oh...nevermind... :-)
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#22Dropped Oracle, using MySQL. Why not use PostgreSQL instead?
Is there a version of poe's law for hacker news / slashdot?
A large company describes their very real efforts and shares their experience and knowledge, and the first comment is "Why not use instead?".
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#23How many times is Netflix going to finalize its transition to AWS?
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#24Dropped Oracle, using MySQL. Why not use PostgreSQL instead?
Assuming MySQL meets their needs there's no hugely compelling reason to choose PostgreSQL over MySQL.
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#25Dropped Oracle, using MySQL. Why not use PostgreSQL instead?
Is there a version of poe's law for hacker news / slashdot? A large company describes their very real efforts and shares their experience and knowledge, and the first comment is "Why not use instead?".
Because knowing how they worked through the decision to come to a conclusion on using a particular product is valuable.
Postgres is usually the first choice for applications like this so knowing why they chose something else over that could influence others that need to make a similar decision.
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#26How many times is Netflix going to finalize its transition to AWS?
They won't 100% be on AWS, but probably close to 95%. Netflix owns its own media CDN.
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#27They used a DRBD replicated MySQL. Wonder why they used MySQL over PostgresSQL then.. Would be great to know if they looked that up aswell.
The interesting thing is cross-region read replication has existed for MySQL since in 2013, whereas cross-region read replication for PG has been out a few days out officially.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cross-region-read-replicas-...
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/06/amazon-rd...
I am interested in non-read replica replication...
Re: Netflix Billing Migration to AWS
#28I got really excited because I read the heading as Netflix migration costs paid for by AWS. I thought they worked out deal to get a free tier during migration. Wow...oh...nevermind... :-)
I work for AWS. I believe we do offer some migration assistance for bigger startups. Hit me up if you want to learn more: rmerket@amazon.com
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#29Dropped Oracle, using MySQL. Why not use PostgreSQL instead?
I know regarding HIPAA, Aurora isn't supported but mySQL is. Maybe there's a reason why it's not HIPAA compliant that made it unusable for Netflix? And cost?