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12 days agoMySQL often has moderately higher performance (particularly for workloads where you want your data clustered by PK, which is how InnoDB is natively structured) and its replication system is much more flexible than either of PostgreSQL’s. I like Percona personally, but MariaDB is fine too.
I was on the bus yesterday and was watching someone copy numbers out of Excel, paste them in Gemini, ask it “what is the total of these numbers”, then paste the answer back into Excel. I truly despair for the brains of some of the most AI-pilled folks.