How To Choose The Right Database?

GREAT video. I expected you to just suggest what you use yourself. You didn't. You describe general experience, stuff that is actually important and useful regardless of the technology. Respect

Man, the wisdom in these videos is unmatched

Totally agree with "when it comes to database though, boring is good." I remember exactly Josh Long from Spring also mentioned about boring allows us to sleep peacefully at night, boring allows us to spend weekend with our family, boring allows us to go to holiday without worrying about work, I LOVE BORING! 😁

I'd like to add one more thing to the selection process: if you're tasked with designing a new system, make sure that you are absolutely sure about the actual load of the database and not the claimed one coming from the business stakeholders. Those guys tend to have overly ambitious goals (rather: dreams) about the growth of their businesses, which would make you choose a database technology and size the infrastructure under it that is a total overkill for a potentially much smaller problem. Besides that, great video, I love how down-to-earth your attitude is!

Very informative, sometimes companies just switch DB and later discovered the existing solution was still gold. In summary, study is key

By far this is one of my favorite programming channels. Extremely easy to understand and great visual presentation.

"developers are naturally drawn to the new & shiny, like moths to a flame" 2:49 🤣

Just here learning everything that I wanted to learn when going to university.

That's focus on Principles not technologies. Principles are timeless... technologies are not (and usually improvements from previous ones).

Totally agree with "when it comes to database though, boring is good. The fancier the claim, the longer the disclaimer in the back.

Appreciate your content. I just cleared an interview where I was just asked one technical question regarding system design and your videos were big help.

This channel knows me from inside out. I was fed with promises from PlanetScale and CockroachDB straight up for days and this drops off at the right moment.

A lot of the tricks here apply beyond choosing databases. A gem of a video😉

So informative. Always dive right into the real contents without bs. Thank you!

All of your videos are very well done. Thank you! Here is an idea for another video...show how to create these videos. A huge part of system design is "showing" the idea. It would be great to learn how you put these together, both from how they flow to the tools used for the awesome data visualization.

Best video on a channel so far, this real-life experience and wisdom is really important

Such an effective, yet simple video on selecting the right database. Thank you.

I was expecting general info on how to choose database for new project but that works too, thank you :)

Thank you. This really helped me understand the complexities involved in migrating databases.

This channel is a goldmine of info. Really great job!