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Comment by throwusawayus | Hacker News Reader

i've noticed this too .. the real head-scratcher is how a solid chunk of github's db & infra folks left to join a database startup, one of them even becoming its ceo!!

if they had made github db/infra super-stable before this, it would be a vote of confidence in their new company, but instead imho it is the opposite

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DB and infra folks are often tasked with shoveling shit uphill, and aren't in total control over how data or schemas get organized.

that's fair. i am just raising an eyebrow to github's apparent lack of sharding, as described in their incident reports -- while these engineers all left to join a db company that focuses specifically on sharding -- it seems like an experience mismatch.

if they were all sharding experts why wasn't github sharded properly. other large mysql shops have solved this, all the way back to the days of yahoo and flickr and livejournal

Which one are you referring to?

maybe i shouldn't have mentioned it, i don't want to name names and have this to come off as an off-topic attack subthread about a different company, sorry! it's a db company that has raised a lot of money and is mentioned on hn a lot, there are only a handful of these

my guess is:

    rot13 cynargfpnyr

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