I don't strictly disagree with you, but the parent has a point. It's not a technical outline of the difficult tradeoffs distributed systems must make[0], rather an ad copy where they can promise you the world and it's hard to tell what's exactly true.
Even igoring Amazon, MySQL/Percona's mha story has had a history of buggy, weak, imprecise promises.
[0] I guess Google level special sauce gets a pass since they have the most published about specially clocked hardware, and how it changes DB design.
Even igoring Amazon, MySQL/Percona's mha story has had a history of buggy, weak, imprecise promises.
[0] I guess Google level special sauce gets a pass since they have the most published about specially clocked hardware, and how it changes DB design.