[tybit]

CockroachDB is presumably what they’re referring to in:

> For Postgres-compatible NewSQL, we would’ve had one of the largest single-cluster footprints for cloud-managed distributed Postgres. We didn’t want to bear the burden of being the first customer to hit certain scaling issues

I find their claim a bit hard to believe.

[white_dragon88]

It is in inherent of a good engineer’s thinking to always consider the worst. Problem is sometimes, it can come across as a boast, or out of touch. It’s neither. It’s really the manifest anxiety of the whole thing shitting its pants and falling over.

[debacle]

At some point failures start getting measured in millions of dollars per minute.

It's smart to be cautious.