Technical and development lead of the official UK COVID-19 Dashboard.
Software geek. Researcher in neuroscience & biomedical data science. Former teaching fellow at University College London.
Location
London, UK
Education
Birkbeck College, University of London and UCL
Work
Deputy head of software engineering for web and data services at UK Health Security Agency
I disagree. I would never deploy a service that I haven't used in production before on a major service, especially one that I had less than 2 weeks to plan, develop, and deploy from the scratch as a part of emergency response. There is also a matter resources at our disposal in the public sector.
Postgres is a proven, open-source technology, as is Citus. They also come as a managed service with extensive support from Microsoft. I have the core dev on speed dial. Can't say that about Yugabyte.
As I said in my concluding remarks, it is often easier to come up with solutions from the outside, but when you're inside, things aren't always that easy.
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I disagree. I would never deploy a service that I haven't used in production before on a major service, especially one that I had less than 2 weeks to plan, develop, and deploy from the scratch as a part of emergency response. There is also a matter resources at our disposal in the public sector.
Postgres is a proven, open-source technology, as is Citus. They also come as a managed service with extensive support from Microsoft. I have the core dev on speed dial. Can't say that about Yugabyte.
As I said in my concluding remarks, it is often easier to come up with solutions from the outside, but when you're inside, things aren't always that easy.