Comment by lkrubner
9 years ago
Pyxl101, I find it surprising that your comment was downvoted. Typically people downvote for one of 2 reasons, either they disagree with your tone or they disagree with your facts, but in your case your tone seems reasonable and your facts seem accurate. It does seem unreasonable that people downvoted you.
Is "rtfm" really such a valuable sentiment in reply to my post?
Personally, I find it to often be a complete non-answer wrapped up with a dismissive and insulting attitude.
I think you're reading dismissive tone into responses where none exists. I was merely pointing out that your inferences around sharding are actually (now) a publicly well documented fact. My intent was to elevate your statement from "educated guess by some random internet person" to "actually, this is definitely true". I would interpret Pyxl as chiming with a more broad "hey everybody, here's a good example of why it's helpful to read the docs, let's all learn from it", rather than "KirinDave, you are a bad person who didn't RTFM, and you should feel bad". It's hard to convey tone on the internet; life is much better when you interpret others' words charitably.
My experience with Amazon is that the documentation is always bad and unhelpful. It's not a bad idea to read them, but it's often misleading to believe they are the whole story.
This is in sharp contrast to the GCE documentation (which is exhaustive although often out of date) or the Azure documentation (imho best overall for technical use but the UI keeps fizzing around making that part of it useless).