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You realize that Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and many, many other shops have successfully run on MySQL for well over a decade, right?

You can armchair engineer all you like, but at the end of the day, the proof of the engineering is in the working.

And if you have Uber stock you'd like to sell just because you think they're making a questionable engineering decision around databases (despite all the real world evidence that it is adequate to serve large scale businesses), I know a few investors who would gladly take it off your hands.



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