who bought it?
Replication has nothing to do with scalability in most cases. Replication is how you reduce downtime! It's the same reason why Raid5 is more then useless in a web server - if a disk dies it has to reboot and has to…
First of all, at the time 5k was completely unrealistic. I've worked for nearly 20 months without salary on Shopify before launching it and all my last savings went to pay (very low) salaries to my friends and…
We actually launched Shopify beta on Postgres. One of the last things we setup before launch (literally 2 days before) was replication. This was foolish by us but there was a lot on our plates back in the day. We spent…
Maybe for some use cases but most people on this site are concerned about scaling web sites where scaling up (which is what you suggest) isn't feasible because of the obvious cap to the approach and the fact that you…
who bought it?
Replication has nothing to do with scalability in most cases. Replication is how you reduce downtime! It's the same reason why Raid5 is more then useless in a web server - if a disk dies it has to reboot and has to…
First of all, at the time 5k was completely unrealistic. I've worked for nearly 20 months without salary on Shopify before launching it and all my last savings went to pay (very low) salaries to my friends and…
We actually launched Shopify beta on Postgres. One of the last things we setup before launch (literally 2 days before) was replication. This was foolish by us but there was a lot on our plates back in the day. We spent…
Maybe for some use cases but most people on this site are concerned about scaling web sites where scaling up (which is what you suggest) isn't feasible because of the obvious cap to the approach and the fact that you…