Yes. I think hn can be a bit of a bubble sometimes. AlloyDB looks cool, for example. Also interesting to see what's coming up in new Android releases given it's the OS with the most users in the world.
> AlloyDB is nothing but their own forked version of Postgres with some improvements. Neither it's open source nor up-streamed to validate their claims.
They're claiming a 4x speed up over stock postgres for transactional workloads. Given that postgres is a very mature and performant DB already I think that's pretty friggin incredible! Im not sure which parts of it you'd expect them to open source, given that it's basically a carefully designed + built storage layer which I imagine is pretty closely tied to GCPs internals. If you wanted to validate their claims you could always start up an instance and run your own tests.
> Android/iOS releases for past 4 years, you can simply skip and you don't notice any changes in Visual/New Features/Performance aspect
Oh c'mon, that's not fair. There have been monumental leaps forward in security, performance, design and pretty much everything else on Android at least. The design has been radically updated in 12 too, which is nice to see (even if some bits broke my workflow).
There's a fine balancing act with this: Change too little, and people call the OS old and legacy software; change too much, and you've broken a lot of people's workflow(s) and expectations of the OS. They really can't win either way.
