[jeffffff]

it's not cargo culting if it works, and they even say in the article that mysql or postgres would've worked

maybe next they will stop cargo culting operating systems and switch to SerenityOS?

[tptacek]

They're talking about running many instances of MySQL locally, not hooking all their systems up to RDS.

[jeffffff]

no they aren't

Tailscale’s coordination server, our “control plane”, has become known as CONTROL. It’s currently a single Go process on a single VM.

source: https://tailscale.com/blog/an-unlikely-database-migration/