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   by rich_archbold 8y ago

   thanks again dajonker, that's more good feedback.
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   by rich_archbold 8y ago

   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 operational tooling and expertise to enable us to opera
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   by rich_archbold 8y ago

   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. I have some slides where I explain that these are "ou
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   by rich_archbold 8y ago

   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 SRECON-EU last year. It was a real struggle to figure out
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   by rich_archbold 8y ago

   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, more that we have a “standard way of doing things. So in this
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   by rich_archbold 8y ago

   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 is greater that the potential negotiating power you m
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   by rich_archbold 9y ago

   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-confident, under-skilled and often lacking-enough-se