Comment on: The startup's Postgres survival guide
Plus managed database restricts what you can do with the database - sometimes in really annoying ways.So while I partly agree with you, a lot of companies don't really need HA, read replicas, or even PITR (though I would
Comment on: Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres
You might hit this middle range soon enough (and/or it might be a painful enough transition) that it's worth thinking about it ahead of time.* If/when you do switch to a distributed database, you don't always need to rek
Comment on: Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents
"download everything" means that you don't have to do a full or partial clone of the repo to make a change. You can imagine agents running in the cloud need to spin up and access the repo for every task, this can be slow for large repos (also small repos with large files). Also locally, worktrees can be a pain to manage with conflicts, confusing branching, and you can't check out the same branch multiple times. But I do agree that we're probably still pretty early on in the agentic adoption that many users using agents in git-like ways will not see much performance improvement.
Comment on: What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
The competition is generally worse. I tell it as someone who saw few different products offered by the competition. This doesn't mean that SAP is good. Also this doesn't mean that there isn't space for someone who could do it better by starting with a clean state (what sounds easy, but is actually very, very hard to pull off).First you should know that the market for ERP systems is very wide. There are LOTS of various companies that offer their ERP systems. Also a lot of those "ERP" systems are "enterprise resource planning" in name only.
The smaller ones often are focused on one thing only: b