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> Note: the invite input box actually autocompletes ALL github usernames. I'm sorry, but that's wild. That's like, not even an easy engineering problem to sol
by matai_kolila 4y ago
> Note: the invite input box actually autocompletes ALL github usernames.
I'm sorry, but that's wild. That's like, not even an easy engineering problem to solve necessarily, given their size!
- gw99 4y agoNot really. They only have 83-90 million users. That's not really a big table, at least in my world...
- matai_kolila 4y agoIn my world 20 is a lot because finding customers is hard... :(
- count 4y agoIt blew my mind after upgrading to enterprise that was still how it worked.
- kuschku 4y agoSorry, but string prefix search over a few hundred million entries is something you can do with the same performance using just postgres on a single server with just a few hours of dev time. I've done it before, it's not as impressive as it seems. With trigrams you can even do precise substring search on this scale with good performance. If you'd like, I can build a small demo.
- matai_kolila 4y agoLol no thanks, once you hit the server I’m good, it’s more about the UI for me.