As far as I'm concerned, the rot is pervasive.. Even the drivers. My ex girlfriend was riding an uber and the driver exposed himself. She complained to uber and they claimed they fired him but after the recent revelations, I don't trust that company at all.
Buck was started after former google employees at facebook wanted to use something like blaze (ended up being called bazel). Kinda like a lot of other things they copied from google at facebook. Dremel -> presto, etc.
I've had success with bucardo, not sure if they tried that. Going to mysql will pose its own set of problems because both of these databases are not really designed for that kind of scale.
tldr; water was used as an excuse by the British to limit immigration to Israel, so from the earliest onset of the formation of Israel, Israel has been trying to tackle the problem of water use inefficiency.
