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Interesting, why would anyone use movio instead of Facebook for targeted ads, I am serious?
That's a different use case c.f. Facebook Ads.
I've come to the conclusion that the problem in tech is that all the people doing the work are in their early twenties and have no idea what they are doing. Once they get some experience they are quickly promoted to the CTO position. Rinse and repeat. What we have here is a classic dbms problem and no one at Movio seems to know how to deal with that. Instead of migrating from Mysql to something serious (Postgres) the…
I like to trot out this old gem[1] when people wonder why there's so much hate for MySQL. Nontransactional DDL alone is sufficient to classify it as a toy DB for me. Yes, I've been personally bitten by it. [1]: https://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else
Elasticsearch works for this use-case quite well, you'd store a fairly straightforward representation of the MySQL row as a document, query by the fields you're interested in and ask for aggregations on the matching documents. Common bitsets get cached automatically.
Or maybe just write a less insane SQL query to begin with?
I've come to the conclusion that the problem in tech is that all the people doing the work are in their early twenties and have no idea what they are doing. Once they get some experience they are quickly promoted to the CTO position. Rinse and repeat. What we have here is a classic dbms problem and no one at Movio seems to know how to deal with that. Instead of migrating from Mysql to something serious (Postgres) the…
I don't mean it to be conformist, but it's easy to forget some things are actually hard when you are very clever or old enough to forget how it was like when you were still learning too.
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Well, what would be the argument against that - if in fact it does deliver code that solves a problem in a short period of time? Why can't you just do that all the time?
Having a fairly small, well defined problem, working in a small self-selected team, with no outside interference and typically no clients outside the team. No managers, no PMs, no bug reports. This is not how day-to-day projects get done. Regardless of all of that, in my experience a typical impressive hackathon project is still just a barely working demo that benefitted from a significant amount of research and plan…
This is cool but it seems strange (to me) that this was a “Hackathon” project as opposed to just a stand-alone problem to be addressed as a normal course of doing business. It doesn’t make the solution less cool. It just seems like a strange distinction on what a Hackathon is.
A hackathon is something that used to be a cool party for geeks (i.e., a Mathletics competition or an ACM programming contest) until the corporate overlords bastardized it and converted a good thing into unpaid overtime with free beer.
I've come to the conclusion that the problem in tech is that all the people doing the work are in their early twenties and have no idea what they are doing. Once they get some experience they are quickly promoted to the CTO position. Rinse and repeat. What we have here is a classic dbms problem and no one at Movio seems to know how to deal with that. Instead of migrating from Mysql to something serious (Postgres) the…
The key, the whole key, and nothing but the key so help me Codd.
Also said as... "In Codd we trust."
If none of these DB jokes mean anything to you, take a DB concepts class at a CS university. There's a lot of great research going back 50 years and you can learn a great deal about why things are the way they are (tuple algebra and calculus). And before changing anything for something you think may be better, you should fully understand what you are giving up.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.86....
I've come to the conclusion that the problem in tech is that all the people doing the work are in their early twenties and have no idea what they are doing. Once they get some experience they are quickly promoted to the CTO position. Rinse and repeat. What we have here is a classic dbms problem and no one at Movio seems to know how to deal with that. Instead of migrating from Mysql to something serious (Postgres) the…
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I think this is a case for the return of the traditional "sysadmin" as "devops"/"SRE" is now the role of unblocking deploying a solution instead of questioning it's complexity/fitness.
If your “SRE” team is only “unblocking deploying a solution” then I’m sad to say they are an operations team who has rebranded themselves to appear more relevant.
This seems a lot less about go and much more about changing the approach to the problem.