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So, instead of fixing your messed up data model, you wrote a service (sorry, microservice) which tries to keep your main DB in sync with a columnar cache, so yo

So, instead of fixing your messed up data model, you wrote a service (sorry, microservice) which tries to keep your main DB in sync with a columnar cache, so you can keep using that awful query with multiple UNIONs. Throw in some "Go" and boy, you have your Medium post going!

icedchai 9y ago
If they said "we added a couple of indexes to some database tables for 10x improvement", it wouldn't be too exciting, right? ;)