johndalton

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   by johndalton 3y ago

   For most folks autovacuum "Just Works", transparently and in the background. For people with large volumes of UPSERTs or similar workloads with lots of activity against existing rows, it may be necessary to tune autovacuum - usual
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   by johndalton 4y ago

   (Disclaimer: I was at Heroku from Jan 2019 - July 2022, supporting Heroku Data products for most of that time. I have no special insight into this latest news beyond what's being reported publicly.) > We host a lot of individual app
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   by johndalton 9y ago

   I've been working remotely for ten years, in a city with a very small but friendly tech scene. A lack of local meetups doesn't always indicate that there's no tech scene, either - when I first started working remotely I was t
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   by johndalton 10y ago

   > Despite being an obvious usability hole, this has never been fixed. Well, which implementation of make should be fixed? The thing about these truly ubiquitous nix tools is that eventually people discover that there are unixes other th
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   by johndalton 10y ago

   That's true, but it also leads to bloated special purpose tools that take minutes to run, as described in the introduction of the article. Sometimes you've better off having something that does exactly what you need, regardless of