@stacksofplates said in Mastodon:

@scottalanmiller said in Mastodon:

@stacksofplates said in Mastodon:

Databases scale vertically. That means, it’s a lot easier and more cost efficient to buy a super beefy machine for your database, than it is to spread the database over multiple machines with sharding or replication.

Why Postgres? That seems like the least logical choice for this.

Not the least, it's better than something expensive or even MariaDB. It has great performance. If you never needed to scale, it might easily be best. But, as he's already found, he needs to scale.

Ya I guess I didn't mean least. It's obviously better than Oracle or Firebird. I just meant out of the plethora of options ( I was thinking Elasticsearch or Solr) this seemed like it wouldn't be considered.

Yeah... CouchDB, MongoDB, all kinds of things that seem like they'd be better for this.

I'm not going to knock the article, cause I do agree, Linux Distros are constantly becoming better, and software developers are realizing they can still make a dime by developing their software so it works on Linux.

My issue is in the work-space and stupid black box appliances that require archaic software to operate that keeps me tethered to Windows.

If I could rip those solutions out, I'd be using CentOS as my daily office driver.

Nice, a few things to check out.

@DustinB3403 said in US Finally Gets the Beginning of an Open Source Policy:

That's cool, but what happens when one agency refuses to release, the government sues it's self??

Yes, that happens all of the time. That's the job of the executive branch. You see Obama or the DOJ doing that regularly with government agencies that break the law.

Never saw that. And it doesn't seem to make any sense. And certainly doesn't make me want to use Linux. What a freaking weird ad.

@Jason said:

I've said this for a long time, the bigest problem with mac is that it's just layering things on top of each other for year and years without ever re-writing.

What's wrong with that?