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by mikeocool 610 days ago
When it comes to your data store, some people might consider using technology that’s been reliably used in production by many organizations for 30 years a feature not a bug.

I’d prefer not to be the first person running up against a limit or discovering a bug in my DB software.
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mannyv 610 days ago
Well every product has issues. The question is, do you feel like dealing with those issues or not?

Flat files have also been reliably used in production for decades. That doesn't mean they're ideal...although amusingly enough s3 and its equivalent of flat files is what we've migrated to as a data store.

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diroussel 609 days ago
It would be quite nice to have some of the S3 semantics on local files. Like no one else can the see the file until after you’ve finished writing the file and committed it. And being able to put almost any chara in the file name (key). That is quite nice in S3
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simne 609 days ago
Tell this to developers of Ariane 5, who used old proven software from Ariane 4.

Many people consider this most expensive bug in history, when on first flight of Ariane 5, it enters speed range, which was hard prohibited in Ariane 4 software and caused software exception and then 1 billion crashed.

Honesty, they could re-check all ranges, but they decided, it would cost like write new software, so to save money, was made decision to just use old software, without additional checks.

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