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Re:Squeeze the hell out of the system you have by smarkov on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:09PM (#37095548)
Very curious to learn more about what the monolith was doing so incredibly poorly that you managed to squeeze that much performance out of it. Poorly written queries? Too many queries? Lack of any caching? Doing things synchronously when they could've been done concurrently?
Re:Squeeze the hell out of the system you have by porridgeandrice on Saturday August 12, 2023 @12:34AM (#37097087)
+1 I'd like to know as well
Re:Squeeze the hell out of the system you have by justinlloyd on Saturday August 12, 2023 @02:16AM (#37097515)
Re:Squeeze the hell out of the system you have by justinlloyd on Saturday August 12, 2023 @02:17AM (#37097521)
Some of that, some other bad practices. Lots of low-hanging fruit, then more esoteric changes.

https://justinlloyd.li/blog/how-much-cache-you-got-on-you/

Re:Squeeze the hell out of the system you have by zepolen on Saturday August 12, 2023 @06:07AM (#37098664)
He cached everything and delayed writes too. It's easy to make a system fast when it's not realtime.
Re:Squeeze the hell out of the system you have by justinlloyd on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:29PM (#37102374)
Incredibly dismissive of somebody's work, aren't ya? I regret breaking my own self-imposed rule of never answering follow-up questions on HN because there's always some dipshit willing to hand-wave away six months of my life and 40 years of real-world experience with a flippant comment of "oh, but that's easy if you don't have too..."
Re:Squeeze the hell out of the system you have by zepolen on Sunday August 13, 2023 @10:51AM (#37110555)
Fragile ego too.
Re:Squeeze the hell out of the system you have by justinlloyd on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:06PM (#37111181)
And you sir, are fucking toxic, just looking at your comment history I can tell that. So you calling me "fragile" carries about as much weight as the next idiot with an opinion.
Re:Squeeze the hell out of the system you have by zepolen on Thursday August 24, 2023 @12:59AM (#37245186)
Toxicity is in the eye of the beholder.
Re:Squeeze the hell out of the system you have by high_priest on Saturday August 12, 2023 @08:21AM (#37099454)
Quick google yields very good examples in huge improvements on a single algorithm level: https://youtu.be/c33AZBnRHks Easy to imagine how even smaller improvements across 10-100 steps of data processing, can become even better.