@evan There are circumstances where they are absolutely the right tool for the job.

For example, in a database where the transaction log is correctly implemented (e.g. Postgres, DB2) then using sprocs for complex logic preserves the transaction log as an unpolluted source of truth.

This makes replication (including wide-area async) and recovery vastly easier (and even trivial in some cases). If those properties of the system matter to your use case, sprocs are a good candidate technology.

@jwildeboer Abolishing the electoral college requires a constitutional amendment, which requires a 2/3 majority of both House and Senate, which is never going to happen given that the GOP have won the Presidency twice in revent memory whilst losing the popular vote.

IMO the US National Popular Voting Compact has a better chance of succeeding - it's currently at 259 EC votes (enacted & pending) - in a couple of cycles they may be over the 270 threshold.

@BentiGorlich You'll need an OTel collector - I'd recommend one per cluster - and then enable a Prometheus endpoint on that (or use Prom remote write, if that's your preference).

Then, point your Prometheus setup at the new endpoint and you should be good.