[corney91]

Might be a good guess, there's precedent of them changing fundamental techology in a similar timeframe...

2013: "Migrating Uber from MySQL to PostgreSQL"[1]

2016: "Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL"[2]

[1] https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/53683323/migrating-ub...

[2] https://www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/postgres-to-mysql-migration/

[liquidpele]

More like “we hired a new principal arch who drove a change they personally liked, and everything was better because it allowed a lot of time to fix tech debt”