[LRUG] Idempotency vs the cloud

[Paul Battley]

On 17 July 2013 12:55, Paul Robinson <paul at 32moves.com> wrote:
> On this point I think right now you have a choice:
>
> 1. I'm too busy to think about this, I'll just pay for RDS from AWS and let them figure it out for me
>
> 2. I really care about this and not too busy, so I'll figure it out myself and get really annoyed when I realise MySQL's clustering is something my niece could have designed better and Postgres is not much better...

If your problem fits (in terms of scale and capabilities required)
into RDS, you'll probably be happy with that, especially since it's
very easy to provision, duplicate, and maintain. However, I wouldn't
pretend that it's a universal solution to data persistence. MySQL vs
Postgres is hardly an exhaustive list of options!

Paul.