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The choice of the routing key in our case was a combination of the unique identifier (UUID) and type of the primary participant of each event in a calendar. This choice was made based on the querying patterns of the consuming application and to maintain a degree of uniqueness.
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Kai Krause on how short-lived software is relative to other art forms:
You can hum a tune you once liked, years later. You can read words or look a painting from 300 years ago and still appreciate its truth and beauty today, as if brand new. Software, by that comparison, is more like Soufflé: enjoy it now, today, for tomorrow it has already coll... See more
Fantastic advice, for software builders:
Headline driven development
Here is a simple process for shipping software projects that works. First, decompose the project into a stream1 of headlines. Then pick an aggressive date to ship the first headline and work like hell to meet that date. Have everyone work only on one headline at a time– the upcomi
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Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash
Quality software from independent makers is like quality food from the farmer’s market. A jar of handmade organic jam is not the same as mass-produced corn syrup-laden jam from the supermarket.
Industrial fruit jam is filled with cheap ingredients and shelf stabilizers. Industrial software is filled... See more
The "Painless" data migration
- Another challenge was to incorporate the above changes for the existing data i.e. increasing the number of shards and defining a custom routing key for each of the document. The existing index had close to 33 MN documents at the time of the change
- Given that the routing key and the number of shards needed to changes, a