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They told me the same thing.

This is such a shock to me! I've been a Final customer for a year or so now, and I have absolutely loved their product. I told all of my friends about it. I'm so sad to hear they're shutting down, and very curious as to why.

For me, the real draw was how easy it is to setup a cluster with high availability and automatic failover. Having used MySQL in production on a mission critical web app for years, failing over between data centers and setting up replication again every time there was some kind of hiccup got very old very fast.

+1 for using a mix of two providers. That's what we do at my startup. Never had a problem since (knock on wood).

I'm no stranger to Node.js. We use it in production for all of our real-time/async stuff. The new ES6 features async/await are cool and all, but it's a late addition to a language that was clearly not designed for synchronous code. If you use them, you just end up with bloated, complex code. For an API, I think Node.js is the wrong tool for the job, personally. PHP is a better fit, IMHO. For real-time/async stuff, it's a different story.

Job server + reasonable timeout/retry limits

My company's product backend is written in PHP. I'm currently rewriting it, and when I started the process, I tried doing it in Node.js because 1) the possibility of client/server code sharing and 2) that's what all the cool kids were doing. That lasted all of a few weeks before the async nature of Node made my head nearly explode. I scraped that and went back to PHP where you can depend on code being executed line-by-line, synchronously, without hacks.

As a language, PHP definitely has some warts. But, it's come a long way, and it keeps getting better all the time.

Personally, I don't think it deserves all the hate it gets. Some criticism is warranted, but definitely not all of it. I think a lot of it stems from the fact that the language is so easy to learn and lets you do things your own way, which (at least in the early days) led to a lot of newbies writing insecure code. See: register_globals (since removed).

That all said, I love PHP. It's simple, yet powerful. It grows with you, and most importantly, it gets the job done.

>completing people's sentences or not allowing someone to finish talking before I say something

That used to be me too. After I started taking medication, I was a little surprised to notice I became a lot more patient with people. Specifically, I didn't feel the need to hurry social interactions along, etc.

If you have difficulty concentrating, are easily distracted, impulsive (i.e. checks Hacker News a lot), are irritable, etc, you might look into whether you have ADD/ADHD.

I had all of those symptoms, but never considered I might have ADD until a few months ago. My doctor had me try Adderall, and the difference has been like night and day.

I'm not saying you have ADD or ADHD. I'm not a doctor. But just based off of what you said, I wanted to mention it, because I wish someone had mentioned it to me like 10 years ago.

>The police does have a vested interest in making the public think that turning the phone off is pointless.

An interesting point, but...

If I were a criminal (I am not), and I were going to commit a crime (I am not), and I knew turning off my phone was pointless because the police can still track it, then I would just leave my phone at home, or give it to a friend.