Leaving MySQL, par Steinar H. Gunderson (Wayback Machine)
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Today was my last day at Oracle, and thus also in the MySQL team.
When a decision comes to switch workplaces, there’s always the question of “why”, but that question always has multiple answers, and perhaps the simplest one is that I found another opportunity, and and as a whole, it was obvious it was time to move on when that arrived.
But it doesn’t really explain why I did go looking for that somewhere else in the first place. The reasons for that are again complex, and it’s not possible to reduce to a single thing. But nevertheless, let me point out something that I’ve been saying both internally and externally for the last five years (although never on a stage—which explains why I’ve been staying away from stages talking about MySQL): MySQL is a pretty poor database, and you should strongly consider using Postgres instead.1