Building software
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Building software
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. 🐘
Around 15-20 clusters of them.
Each cluster... See more
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
degree of iteration in software development is inevitable. As soon as one accepts that logic, one must then also accept that software development will be subject to friction (i.e. unexpected inefficiencies). When I plan the future for a piece of software, I expect to encounter ongoing friction, and I try to allow for that. I remain astonished at how many organisations assume that a master plan for their software can be rigidly followed.
