Oh well played!! I was setting up to give the author a hard time about being judgemental, particularly because storing IPs or UUIDs as strings is a mistake I've seen some pretty darn good devs make. Some folks just aren't super strong on schema design and performance but are great at other things.
Plus MySQL kind of rocks. Fight me. There are some interesting optimizations that Percona has written about that may improve the performance of OPs schema. The learning never ends.
TBH I haven't seen a shortage of mentors. In fact most of our dev team is 35+ and are very approachable and collegial and our internal mentoring programs have been extremely successful - literally creating world experts in their specific field. I don't think we're unique in that respect.
I think it's rather unfortunate that the top comment here is a spoiler. Actually reading the post and going on the emotional rollercoaster that the author intended to take you on is the point. Not the punch line.
Agreed. I prefer Postgres for personal projects, but MySQL is a fine database. Honestly, even a relational DB I wouldn't want to use again (DB2...) is still pretty solid to me. The relational model is pretty damn neat and SQL is a pretty solid query language.
I wonder how many people disagree with that last part in particular...
It’s actually the core of all dev that involves any data storage, today. HN is both aspirational in tech and has a younger demographic so you won’t get any points here for mentioning anything SQL. Hence the downvotes I’m getting. But hey, it’s all good!!
Plus MySQL kind of rocks. Fight me. There are some interesting optimizations that Percona has written about that may improve the performance of OPs schema. The learning never ends.
TBH I haven't seen a shortage of mentors. In fact most of our dev team is 35+ and are very approachable and collegial and our internal mentoring programs have been extremely successful - literally creating world experts in their specific field. I don't think we're unique in that respect.
I think it's rather unfortunate that the top comment here is a spoiler. Actually reading the post and going on the emotional rollercoaster that the author intended to take you on is the point. Not the punch line.