I just don’t get all the “just shutdown the db for an hour, you’re not Netflix” comments.
If you can do things properly, as an engineer, you absolutely should, even if your company serves “just” hundreds of thousands instead of hundreds of millions users.
It is not like they wrote their own database for that, they just used an open source tool.
If you can do things properly, as an engineer, you absolutely should, even if your company serves “just” hundreds of thousands instead of hundreds of millions users.
It is not like they wrote their own database for that, they just used an open source tool.