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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. š
Around 15-20 clusters of them.
Each cluster... See more
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- 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
Quality software deserves your hardāearned cash
Quality software from independent makers is like quality food from the farmerās market. A jar of handmade organic jam is not the same as mass-produced corn syrup-laden jam from the supermarket.
Industrial fruit jam is filled with cheap... See more
It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else. I don't want any help. I hate some of these modern systems where you type up a lowercase letter and it becomes a capital. I don't want a capital, if I'd wanted a capital, I would have typed the capital.
George R.R. Martin
The beauty of finished software
In a world where constant change is the norm, finished software āa software you can use forever with no unneeded change āprovides a breath of fresh air. Itās a reminder that reliability, consistency, and user satisfaction can coexist in the realm of software development.