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Re:Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queri... by appplication on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @02:05AM (#38456437)
Ha, that was quite a twist at the end there. Was this due to your self-created redundancy?
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Re:Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queri... by soks86 on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @02:11AM (#38456463)
or embarrassment and concern on the part of the people who created this system before him.

I've made similar improvements (40x speedup, 8x reduction in RAM footprint) and had been shown the door. This was for software that was a bit over 30 years old too so it was a bit involved.

The team winning does not help a narcissist feel better. You'd be better off getting nothing done while stroking their ego daily.

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Re:Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queri... by alserio on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @07:47AM (#38458694)
it seems like they did you a solid showing you that you were wasted working in that environment
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Re:Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queri... by thinkingemote on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @05:10AM (#38457602)
"job security through database complexity"
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