firstalert acquired luma, which had acquired birdi, which was kickstarter campaign smart smoke thing, which shipped nothing to most of kickstarter backers
some m&a execs clearly did not have good vaporware detector there!!
youtube migrated away from vitess several years ago
Mysql product is circling drain under oracles direction anymore. New 8.x “innovation” releases lack any important features. even Mariadb is out executing oracle despite being broke!
Mysql community is in bad shape too. Official slack channel is avalanche of lazy newbie questions. Official linkedin group is endless spew of “learn sql cheat sheet”
Sad. It’s done for. community may still be “enormous” but that is bad thing when its communication channels overrun by sub-bootcamp-level devs
innodb supports cross-schema foreign keys, there’s no limitation to tables in a single database
can be terrible in mysql 8 though due to metadata locks now extending across foreign key boundaries. this means alter in one schema can block things in other schema if foreign key across databases
speaking of, am surprised that blog post author doesnt discuss the new mysql 8 metadata locking behavior, is new major problem with mysql foreign keys!
only oracle knows. and they don’t share answer yet, on this site or any other
only public news so far is extremely brief twitter mention of future switch to separate LTS releases from feature releases
big picture, hard to see what would motivate them to major re-invest in current mysql product model! amazon, planetscale, and co all profit off of oracle’s mysql server development efforts. and oracle does not get anything in return
assume this why more and more mysql dev efforts go to saas-only product like “mysql heatwave”!
firstalert acquired luma, which had acquired birdi, which was kickstarter campaign smart smoke thing, which shipped nothing to most of kickstarter backers
some m&a execs clearly did not have good vaporware detector there!!