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1. The number of partitions is fixed at the time of the index creation. Each partition is an indivisible chunk of data which can grow in size but not be split into smaller chunks. As the data grows, more nodes may be added to the cluster, but the number of partitions which eventually move to the newer nodes are limited (Fig 3)


2. In some sense, as the

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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

2019 when we got started with Linear, most SaaS websites at the time seemed to be these "Corporate Memphis" sites with vague benefit statements and weird colorful illustrations. No screenshots of the product and dark sites were very rare in B2B SaaS.

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.