[solardev]

I dunno. As a web dev, I find these "latest feature from vendor X" (typically Cloudflare or Vercel) posts quite helpful.

They let me know what the current big companies are doing to improve developer experience and/or devops. Their teams are often bigger than my entire company, so learning from them is a great way to see what we might be able to implement (whether by buying their service or doing a small scale version of it in-house).

Secondarily, they sometimes also show end-user experience improvements that I never thought would be possible at a certain scale/cost. Cloudflare hosting Doom and IRC on serverless is one such example, or Vercel doing multiplayer live editing (Figma style) out of the box with Next.js is another.

For this case of this particular post, the idea of having an external metadata analytics system for Mysql, stored in a separate store and dashboard, is something I've only vaguely seen in DigitalOcean. Seeing it as fully featured as in Planetscale makes me both wonder if we should consider using them instead of a some generic cloud DB, and also whether we can implement something similar on a standard LEMP container. It's one of the more interesting pieces I read on HN today, actually.

For those of us who don't live and breathe infrastructure, big(ger) tech company blog posts is a great way to learn, and I value them!

[skilled]

I'm not sure why you felt like you need to perform mental gymnastics over my comment. I said what I said because it's a valid point.

Let me help you understand it a little bit more in-depth.

First of all, the title used for this submission does not imply an announcement of a new feature. This one[0], however, does. Now, let's look past that. Let's say that the submission warrants front-page treatment fair and square because it has valuable content (a write-up at the very least). Lo and behold - it does not.

This submission[1] announcing Vercel's Build Output API has both a decent submission title (I can instantly tell it's a feature announcement) and fairly decent explanation for the feature, also. In fact, they even provided links to various documentations to help developers get started right away.

I'm still eagerly awaiting for someone to tell me what they learned from this specific submission.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15364896

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32192498

[solardev]

I don't know what mental gymnastics you're talking about? I thought I was literally answering your question... I didn't know that rich metadata analytics for mysql existed in an easy to use GUI from this or any vendor. That's valuable knowledge I just learned from the post. My Cloudflare and Vercel examples were similar.

Now, if your issue was with the article title, I fully agree. I wish the titles here were clearer.