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		swasheck on July 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MyS... but getting to use "Schemaless" and "microservices" so that they could "shard"

coldtea on July 26, 2016 | [–]

Because sharding and schemaless are some recent novelties, huh?

(And even microservices are established practices -- heck Amazon was built on them more than a decade ago).

estefan on July 26, 2016 | [–]

and so they could "get it working"

swasheck on July 26, 2016 | [–]

it doesnt sound like it wasnt working, though.

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