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A comment on Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989). Parent comment

Re:Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989) by zimpenfish on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:02PM (#24138561)
> a Redis caching layer and a complex custom lookup scheme

Bane of my life. A few gigs ago, they had a global Redis cache, a Redis cache per server, an in-app cache, and then MySQL. Needless to say, there were many, MANY bugs that came down to cache coherency and race conditions between them.

[edit: it was a global Redis, not clustered.]

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Re:Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989) by hckr1292 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:06PM (#24138586)
Did we both work at a certain edtech company? Seems oddly specific and exactly how I remember our monolith being structured
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Re:Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989) by zimpenfish on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:19AM (#24141098)
Alas, that wasn't edtech, it was photos related.
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