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I’ve worked at a half dozen companies most people have never heard of and they all had database complexity and performance issues. The whole “only FAANG has sca
by therealdrag0 4y ago
I’ve worked at a half dozen companies most people have never heard of and they all had database complexity and performance issues. The whole “only FAANG has scale” meme needs to die.
You’re probably right there’s a magnitude more tiny apps but who cares. A large number of us still are interested in and need to solve for non-trivial cases.
- Too 4y agoMost database performance issues are bad choice of indices, bad data model, bad queries, not enough RAM, missing pooling, unrealistic expectations and lack of pre-computed caches. None of these are solved by "optimize kernel-parameters to the max".
- therealdrag0 4y agoI agree! I must have misread or misunderstood the context.
- koolba 4y agoThis is exactly what I was talking about.