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So you don't care about artists then? Those Spotify streams is what makes them income.

One aspect the article seems to overlook is Albanian. Since Albanian is a unique branch of Indo-European, descending from the Paleo-Balkan linguistic world and developed in the same broader region, it would be interesting to see whether the non-Greek substrate vocabulary found in Ancient Greek has been systematically compared with Proto-Albanian and other reconstructed Paleo-Balkan material.

Google Cloud and AWS are complex because they're meant for hosting complex apps and infrastructure, they're not really worth it for simple static websites.

I agree, couldn't have said it better.

Author here. The table did actually have a primary key, during the migration it was changed to unique, and then the new auto-incremental primary key was added.

I've updated the article to make that part clear.

I agree that having the binlog_format to ROW is the only option that make sense, which thankfully seems to be the default now.

Author here. I didn't make it clear in the article but the table in question did have a primary key, which was migrated to an unique key, and then the new auto-incremental primary key was added.

As I mentioned in the article, the old ID field was then used in the update statement for the other tables.

I'm updating the article now to make that part clear.