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Re:What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse... by randomdata on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:11AM (#30953535)
> They went from embedded JSON, to something else (equally crazy), to embedded JSON again.

They went from a JSON file, to etcd, to SQLite. etcd seems a little misplaced, but presumably it was already in their infrastructure and they thought they could save time leveraging it. The file-based approach seems appropriate for their particular use-case, though. It's not like it's a Rails app.

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Re:What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse... by Aeolun on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:46AM (#30954385)
Crap, I’d forgotten about the sqlite part. You are of course correct. Apparently I’d only remembered the fact they went back to something file based :/

I’m still of the opinion that whatever you are storing, if your alternatives are JSON or Sqlite, etcd is a really strange/unconventional choice.

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