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by bradfitz 1989 days ago
> What if you used one of the managed RDBMS services offered by the big cloud providers?

We could (and likely would, despite the costs) but that doesn't address our testing requirements.

The control plane is on AWS.

We use 4 or 5 different cloud providers (Tailscale makes that much easier) but the most important bit is on AWS.
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nicoburns 1989 days ago
Why is testing Postgres/MySQL difficult? You can easily run a server locally (or on CI) and create new databases for test runs, etc.
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bradfitz 1989 days ago
It's not difficult. We've done it before and have code for it. See the article.
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ignoramous 1989 days ago
> ...but the most important bit is on AWS.

Curious: Was running DynamoDB with DAX (DynamoDB Accelerator) in front ever in contention? If not, is it due to vendor lock-in (for example, not being able to migrate out) or because tailscale doesn't feel the need to use managed offerings especially for core infrastructure?

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