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Mike Coutermarsh
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Mike Coutermarsh's personal blog at mikecoutermarsh.com covers programming and web. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Why infrastructure engineers prefer MySQL”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked post on why an infrastructure engineer enjoys PostgreSQL. It contrasts infrastructure engineers, who prefer MySQL for easier backups, replication, failover and upgrades, with product engineers, who want features like PostGIS and jsonb.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My personal blog
Most-linked posts?
- Why infrastructure engineers prefer MySQL4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-01-18
- How I hosted a local television contest for $2.37 on Heroku3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-04-03
What Hacker News says?
From the linked https://mikecoutermarsh.com/why-infrastructure-engineers-pre... > When an infrastructure engineer tells you they prefer MySQL. It’s probably because for them it’s simpler/easier to operate it. Backups, replication, failover, upgrades. Accomplishing what is most important to them. > When product engineers prefer postgres, it’s usually because of something like postgis, jsonb/hstore. Some feature they…
Comment linking /why-infrastructure-engineers-prefer-mysql/
on “Why I Enjoy PostgreSQL – Infrastructure Engineer's Perspective”Submitted When to cache in your Rails app as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why infrastructure engineers prefer MySQL as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I hosted a local television contest for $2.37 on Heroku as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why infrastructure engineers prefer MySQL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning Vim in a Week as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Tech Lead and Survive as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why infrastructure engineers prefer MySQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running queries in parallel with Rails 7 and load_async as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to stop Rails from setting a session cookie as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New index name generation in Rails 7.1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Rails health check endpoint as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I hosted a local television contest for $2.37 on heroku as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I hosted a local television contest for $2.37 on heroku as a story · 1 points
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