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Fantastic advice, for software builders:
Headline driven development
Here is a simple process for shipping software projects that works. First, decompose the project into a stream1 of headlines. Then pick an aggressive date to ship the first headline and work like hell to meet that date. Have everyone work only on one headline at a time– the
... See moreIn most companies, activity is driven by the org chart. That’s how decisions are made, communicated, and acted on. That’s why it’s hard to scale as a company grows. Deep org charts give structure to huge hierarchies of people, but they’re not great for executing on projects.
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The choice of the routing key in our case was a combination of the unique identifier (UUID) and type of the primary participant of each event in a calendar. This choice was made based on the querying patterns of the consuming application and to maintain a degree of uniqueness.
Improving query performance in ElasticSearch at scale
Software problems tend to evolve over time into philosophy problems, a point that's come up in a few Diff pieces, like the Antithesis writeup and Asana's ontology-as-a-service ($). In this particular category, it's the philosophy of work and vocation: a bond trader, accountant, or social media manager doesn't necessarily have to spend much time... See more
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The "Painless" data migration
- Another challenge was to incorporate the above changes for the existing data i.e. increasing the number of shards and defining a custom routing key for each of the document. The existing index had close to 33 MN documents at the time of the change
- Given that the routing key and the number of shards needed to changes, a
Improving query performance in ElasticSearch at scale
