Re: Has anyone heard of dev01 and their switch from PG to SQL-Server?

On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, Josh Berkus wrote:

> On 07/19/2017 10:50 AM, Joshua Kramer wrote:
> > Hello All-
> > 
> > dev01 is a company that is profiled in some Microsoft materials as
> > they recently implemented SQL-Server 2017 on Linux.  According to some
> > materials on their site, they switched from Postgres/Redshift to
> > SQL-Server and saw immediate performance improvements.  Of course,
> > it's short on details...
> > 
> > https://www.dv01.co/dv01s-technology-featured-by-microsoft-at-data-amp-event-profiled-in-case-study/
> 
> Well, presumably if they hadn't seen performance improvements, they
> wouldn't have switched.  Survivor bias and all that.

Their app frontend (40.79.47.136) seems to be hosted on Azure.

Looking at this

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/17/how-microsoft-brought-sql-server-to-linux/

they barely got their "platform abstraction" thing working. I've seen the Platform
Abstraction Layer of .NET Core (the small, multiplatform .NET engine) and it's
a hack. Everything is bent to match 1990-era Win32 APIs.

Anyone to ask them directly? I think this should be explained quickly.

Marcin Cieślak