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Postgres bulk update: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!17/b3d19/1 You can do something similar in MySQL with temp tables. Bulk update through upsert (slightly different than a bulk update, s…

What distinction is being made between sharding by entity and sharding a graph? The approach seems to be the same, just with different naming.

Bitwise OR and XOR are supported on ints. It doesn't work on bools, but there are equivalents: https://play.golang.org/p/GCAFwx03pi

From the little I can see from their blog posts, Schemaless seems to be both a sharding layer and an immutability layer that can sit on top of postgres or mysql. However, discussin…

That is how I understood it too. Updating your data with a call to insert won't run into the same problems as updating your data with a call to update. Their immutability implement…

All of these response posts seem to miss one big piece that made no sense to me. Uber goes really in-depth around the higher cost of updates in postgres, but then Uber describes Sc…

I used to be terrible at interviewing. I know when I see other people going through similar problems, and make every attempt I can to work around them. There is only so much you ca…

You're right. I was thinking about it for a while and have seen his name show up other times where I've thought about commenting and haven't. Normally I wouldn't say anything, and …

I interviewed/phone screened Xah Lee about 2 years ago. I'd never heard of him, so I skimmed over his resume and checked out his site an hour or two before the call. I remember whe…

Developer work is too varied to have a single consistent voice. Drop the union idea, the word has too much baggage and becomes a huge people management issue. Turn it into what dev…

I'm not sure if you are serious, but I don't understand what you think would be involved. If you remove the time inconsistencies from a calendar, any decent calendaring app will so…

If you live up north, adjust the local schedule instead of the clocks. If kids are waiting in the dark, move the start time to later in the day. If it is light out at midnight shif…