Building software
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Building software
i want to make software that feels like magic.
i want to make software that is useful, to many people; that is valuable, that makes sense. but that's also surprising, pleasant, funny.
i want to make software is serious and makes sense but is also silly and doesn't.
eugene is building untitled map apptwitter.com
Cloudflare serves around 20% of the web with 46 million requests a second.
Surely they must have a lot of data.
Where do they store it?
Plain old PostgreSQL. đ
Around 15-20 clusters of them.
Each cluster... See more
- 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)
- In some sense, as the
Improving query performance in ElasticSearch at scale
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 timeâ the
... See moreThe Distributed Computing Manifesto
Dr Werner Vogels - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/allthingsdistributed.com