Article could be made useful by showing a benchmark of indexes vs no-indexes, and showing the readers how the indexes were created. At least then we can say it's educational and has substance. Otherwise I agree this is substance-less. It's common sense that any database is slow if used incorrectly.
How adding indexes to our MongoDB really improved our perfomance
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Re: How adding indexes to our MongoDB really improved our perfomance
#12I might be nitpicking, but your blog's permanent and space taking headers make the user experience very unwelcoming, and make the whole site feel unwieldy -- slow scrolling and a good amount of space being taken over for no reason.
Hi, thanks for the feedback! It's not my blog actually, we are a startup (hence the top bar for users), we will take the feedback on board, maybe we got a little excited with the size of the topbar :)
I think it's the combination of the top and bottom bar that make the site feel a little weird for me.
Re: How adding indexes to our MongoDB really improved our perfomance
#13Article could be made useful by showing a benchmark of indexes vs no-indexes, and showing the readers how the indexes were created. At least then we can say it's educational and has substance. Otherwise I agree this is substance-less. It's common sense that any database is slow if used incorrectly.
Point taken! We'll make sure next time we bring something more quantifiable and more stats. thank you!
Re: How adding indexes to our MongoDB really improved our perfomance
#14I don't understand how this got to the front page. Would anybody upvote an article about how adding indexes to a table in MySql improved performance?
I think the point here is that many people don't realise indexes matter so much in MongoDB. Their documentation doesn't go out the way to push indexes as a must. That coupled with the ease at which you can just start using it compared to say, MySQL, means that people find it interesting. I will point out that while I wrote this, it was more to try and ensure other people don't make the same mistakes.
If you someone didn't realize what indexes do then they were using a technology they had no idea about. I love Mongo but its users tend to be clueless.
Re: How adding indexes to our MongoDB really improved our perfomance
#15I might be nitpicking, but your blog's permanent and space taking headers make the user experience very unwelcoming, and make the whole site feel unwieldy -- slow scrolling and a good amount of space being taken over for no reason.
Hi, thanks for the feedback! It's not my blog actually, we are a startup (hence the top bar for users), we will take the feedback on board, maybe we got a little excited with the size of the topbar :)
Worse than that: from my end on Chrome (beta) running in Ubuntu, the bars appear to stay in their original location when scrolling which makes them cover content and generally bug out. I could not read the article at all!