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Re: Why we lost Uber as a user

Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>

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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-08-16T23:38:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 

On 8/3/16 3:29 AM, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Honestly the take-away I see in the Uber story is that they apparently
> had nobody on staff that was on -hackers or apparently even -general
> and tried to go it alone rather than involve experts from outside
> their company. As a result they misdiagnosed their problems based on
> prejudices seeing what they expected to see rather than what the real
> problem was.
>
Agree strongly, but there are still lessons to be learned on the psql side.

-Alfred

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