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Amazon's move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage

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Hacker news needs some form of misleading/clickbait title flag. The article is actually about package delays at one of their warehouses during prime day and not the prime day website outages which were caused by their nosql database sable [0].

[0] (ironically, also cnbc): https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/amazon-internal-documents-wh...

Edit: wow, I don't mean actually flagged and taken off the front page since there was some interesting content in there. I think the flag should just prepend the title with something like [Misleading title] so that users know it does not fully summarize the content of the article.

I vouched for it. This is clearly tech related, interesting and speaks to an issue of our time - the move to/from the cloud. The headline isn't entirely wrong ... there were two outages on Prime Day and the move off Oracle DB was the cause of one of them, but it could also be clarified. It's a minor issue.

I suspect it may just get flagged again because it paints Oracle in a good light. Apparently that is now unspeakable wrongthink and anything that implies Oracle might not be 100% suck needs to be hidden, lest the idea spread.

Non amp link: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/23/amazon-move-off-oracle-cause...

>The outage underscores the challenge Amazon faces as it looks to move completely off Oracle's database by 2020, and how difficult it is to re-create that level of reliability.

Without much of the technical details, that is quite a conclusion to come to. I mean, migrating a site as huge as Amazon.com from one database technology to another is going to be insanely challenging even if they have the absolute best database technology in the world.

I'm sure their database technology is up to the task, but it is probably going to be challenging to iron out the issues without impacting users. They've had decades to iron out issues with their Oracle databases.

Sounds like Oracle wrote that to me!

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