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cschep
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GitHub availability this week
Interesting to read about github using MySQL instead of Postgres. Anyone know why? I am just curious because of all the MySQL bashing I hear in the echo chamber.
technoweenie
on Sept 14, 2012
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Mostly because of legacy reasons, at this point.
boundlessdreamz
on Sept 15, 2012
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That sounds like you would have chosen differently if you had to choose now. Is that so?
lonnyk
on Sept 14, 2012
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Do you have a source for this information?
technoweenie
on Sept 15, 2012
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I have the source code, yes :)
jaggederest
on Sept 15, 2012
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https://github.com/technoweenie
He's on the Github team. I assume he's speaking Ex Cathedra.
autotravis
on Sept 15, 2012
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They use both, according to Zach Holman (
http://zachholman.com/talk/unsucking-your-teams-development-...
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technoweenie
on Sept 15, 2012
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The only postgres we use is from internal Heroku apps. We use Mongo in a few places too.
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