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Instagram Engineering: Storing hundreds of... →
instagram-engineering:
When transitioning systems, sometimes you have to build a little scaffolding. At Instagram, we recently had to do just that: for legacy reasons, we need to keep around a mapping of about 300 million photos back to the user ID that created them, in order to know which shard to query (see more info…
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blog.izs.me: Experts, Idiots, and Taste →
izs:
My nerd rage on the topic of Fibers, co-routines, and compiled-to-js languages in node.js comes from seeing a non-problem solved in a way that makes it worse.
There are two really dangerous rationalizations in software design:
“We need to make it easier for newcomers.”
“Only experts will use…
