▲ | whalesalad a month ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
self hosting psql is trivial - what is the scary part? thats how we used it for decades until things like RDS came around. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | sgarland a month ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I would never say that self-hosting anything is trivial. Linux administration, tuning, and troubleshooting can be learned, obviously, and the same is true of RDBMS. Neither is a trivial skillset if you want to actually be able to run stuff at scale, though. There's a massive difference between 25 QPS and 25,000 QPS (TFA states ~40 replicas, and an aggregate of 1,000,000 QPS). That shouldn't deter anyone from trying, though. You can't learn if you don't try. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | olalonde a month ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Back in the 2000s, Database Administrator (DBA) was a pretty popular job title, and they usually got paid way more than regular software developers. It probably wouldn’t have been like that if managing databases was "trivial". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | lossolo a month ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yeah, that's baffling to me too. I started self-hosting my databases with MySQL 21 years ago, before the cloud even existed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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