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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
Byrne Hobart • Building for Power Users
Database Partitioning is when you split the data inside the database into smaller "databases". One partition holds a part of your data. All partitions together form the entire database.
Partitioning is often used with replication, which means each partition's data is copied onto multiple nodes. This way, even though each record is in only one partition, it can be stored on different nodes for fault tolerance. A node may hold more than one partition.
When using a leader-follower replication model, the mix of partitioning and replication might look like this:
Seven attributes of good software: simple, consistent, composable, scalable, obvious, communicative, and accommodating. Some old and new ideas mixed together in one place.
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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
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The formula in Fig 5 is one of the reasons why Elasticsearch does not allow the update of the number of primary shards post index creation. What the default routing guarantees is that the data will be uniformly distributed across the cluster which would reduce query hotspots when retrieving documents