Both Cockroach and CedarDB didn't rewrite anything, they built stuff from scratch. Just used the same client protocol. There are a bunch of other unrelated databases using Postgres protocol btw.
I'm not talking about speaking the protocol. I'm talking about trying as hard as they can to be as indistinguishable from Postgres (to a non-operations user) as they can. And that list is very small.
It's the team, they have a few Postgres committers and major contributors, and there are not that many of them. But that's a bit precarious, the team may leave after the acquisition for many reasons.
1. They likely won't occupy all of Ukraine, but I doubt it was their initial goal.
They may still occupy all of the eastern part. In any case, it's pretty unlikely they will just pack and go home.
3. Not every person, there is some redundancy in the chain exactly to make sure it will work even in case of a few people who wouldn't press the button.
>> Russia is restoring its unity - the tragedy of 1991, this terrible catastrophe of our history, its unnatural dislocation, have been overcome. Yes, at a high price, yes, through the tragic events of the virtual civil war, because now brothers separated by belonging to the Russian and Ukrainian armies are still shooting at each other - but Ukraine will no longer be anti-Russia. Russia is restoring its historical fullness by gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together - in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we had abandoned this, allowed temporary division to gain a foothold for centuries, we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but would also be cursed by our descendants - for allowing the collapse of the Russian land.
For reference 1991 is when Ukraine gained its independence.
Well, when you impose economic embargo (as the US did on Japan), and you supply one of the parties (the UK) with weapons, you might not necessarily initiate the war, but you in fact actively participate in it. You can get away with that involvement if the threat is relatively minor (like in Vietnam or Afghanistan cases), but history tells us you can't avoid entering the war if what you do is an existential threat for the other party. Now try to replace Japan with Russia and UK with Ukraine and you can see where it is going. Also, in this war it's not necessary to occupy the territory, so while the US territory was safe during both world wars, it's not the case now.
But Poland, Hungary, etc - they were not divided at least. It was a much bigger deal for Germany than for them. Also, the echo of WWII plays some role here I guess. Germany and other East European countries are in different positions here.
It is, just not immediately after 1991 (there was a long period of turmoil and decline). It happened mostly in 2000s, yes, right after Putin came to power.
Atlassian makes zero profits because it reinvests them in growth (hiring, acquisitions). The common sense here is that you return profits to shareholders only if you can't grow fast enough. That's the case for a lot of other industries where you have single digit growth in good years. But if you can grow 30% annually, you bring much more value if you reinvest your profits.
