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Rick Branson
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Rick Branson's personal blog at rbranson.medium.com covers systems and data. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these Medium posts on PostgreSQL pain points, including '10 things I hate about PostgreSQL', and on the case for managed databases. One also cites his cloud pricing and margin analysis.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-06
- /rds-pricing-has-more-than-doubled-ef8c3b7e52182 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-06
What Hacker News says?
There's some stuff here with some links you can follow: https://rbranson.medium.com/10-things-i-hate-about-postgresq...
Comment linking /10-things-i-hate-about-postgresql-20dbab8c2791
on “An early look at Postgres 14: Performance and monitoring Improvements”Submitted Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020) as a story · 439 points
HN discussion>While much of this praise is certainly well-deserved, the lack of meaningful dissent left me a bit bothered. Had the same feeling when I was reading that thread. And has been for quite some time when the hype is over the top. The problem is seemingly Tech is often a cult. On HN, mentioning MySQL is better at certain things and hoping Postgres improve will draw out the Oracle haters and Postgres apologist. Or they a…
Comment linking /rds-pricing-has-more-than-doubled-ef8c3b7e5218
on “Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)”Submitted Sharing an SQLite database across containers is surprisingly brilliant as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://rbranson.medium.com/rds-pricing-has-more-than-double... is a good example of using the generation abstraction to improve margins. Obviously, this source is not a price increase. It’s just increase in premium over EC2. https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2021/12/17/iaas-pricing-2021/ Is also great and shows a flatness in price
Comment linking /rds-pricing-has-more-than-doubled-ef8c3b7e5218
on “Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing”Submitted Ten Things I Hate About PostgreSQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis article convinced me to go managed for Postgres: https://rbranson.medium.com/10-things-i-hate-about-postgresq... (2020) > The good news is that the pain caused by many of the issues brought up in this post can be reduced or eliminated by using a managed database service like Heroku PostgreSQL, Compose PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, or Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. If you can use one of these services…
Comment linking /10-things-i-hate-about-postgresql-20dbab8c2791
on “Ask HN: Do you self-host your database?”
