billoneil

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   by billoneil 3y ago

   Hosted Looker and many other tools are getting direct DB access these days and I'm sure you use products that do it. As an engineer I'm not a fan of it and it can often cause problems so it's best to point them at read replic
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   by billoneil 6y ago

   Most employment contracts have a section where you declare your existing intellectual property. You can also have this amended after you start working there.
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   by billoneil 8y ago

   Either way, something still seems off. If MongoDB and Elasticsearch were 3-5x more performant I would still find that surprising. A > 10-20x difference really seems like a configuration or implementation issue.
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   by billoneil 8y ago

   > The reason PostgreSQL results were omitted is no matter what kind of optimization we throw at it, the benchmark always took more than 2 hours, regardless of partitioning, whereas MongoDB and Elasticsearch took a couple of minutes. This