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Emm, I'm very curious about the reasons why they finally chose TiDB.


My guess: then benefits SQL at scale and reduced maintenance burden. That’s what the article seems to hint at.


There are some other options as well, like this one: https://www.pingcap.com/tidb-serverless/


Architecturally yes but with an extension of in-memory columnar format as well. This makes it an HTAP (Hybid Transactional and Analytical Processing) database.


Wow, this is a very nice tool! Although I'm a ReMarkable2 user, I'm also curious about if this tool can be extended to support the newly launched Kindle Scribe.


In general, NewSQL (distributed database) may still be a good solution to address scalability limit encountered by a single server/node database like MySQL/PG. Currently, there are quite a few options in this domain: Spanner, PG-compatible (CockroachDB, YugaByte), MySQL-compatible (TiDB, MariaDB xPand), and other middleware products to handle sharding.


Nice find, I like it!


"The data was stolen from a misconfigured cloud database found by the attacker through a search engine"


Thanks for sharing. I also found their blogs are insightful as well and worthy reading.


I like the subtitle LOL: "Big Red doesn't charge more when users add cores, so Big Blue plans to triple the count. Because why not?"


This is classic The Register tone, which I like a lot. Also, I missed these kinds of moves between vendors...

BTW, BOFH[0] is a great The Register series if you want more of it.

[0]: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/


BOFH is older than the Register.

"The BOFH stories were originally posted in 1992 to Usenet..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell

"The Register was founded in London as an email newsletter called Chip Connection. In 1998 The Register became a daily online news source."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Register


> BOFH is older than the Register.

I knew that BOFH is old, yet...

> "The BOFH stories were originally posted in 1992 to Usenet..."

I didn't know that it was that old.

Amazing. Thanks for sharing.


That's not really old.

My IBM Model M keyboard is from 1985. That's probably the oldest piece of equipment that I actively use.


Of course it's not that old, but considering 1992 is the year I started to play with computers as a kid, that's older than I expected, at least for me.

I've used internet for the first time when the The Register became an online publication.


Kind of reminds me of tech Variety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egpWCC2svVo


Thanks for BOFH. Whole series is genius!


To this day I still chortle about “big, chunky volts” delivered down innocent-looking connectors. The younglins know not what I speaketh of.


Several other alternatives: https://stackdiary.com/figma-alternatives/


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