onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoThe Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophetechtrenches.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square130fedilinkarrow-up1344arrow-down112cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44arrow-down2·1 day agoSoftware has a serious “one more lane will fix traffic” problem. Don’t give programmers better hardware or else they will write worse software. End of.
minus-squarenelson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 day agoThis is very true. You don’t need a bigger database server, you need an index on that table you query all the time that’s doing full table scans.
minus-squarePattyMcB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 hours agoOr sharding on a particular column
Software has a serious “one more lane will fix traffic” problem.
Don’t give programmers better hardware or else they will write worse software. End of.
This is very true. You don’t need a bigger database server, you need an index on that table you query all the time that’s doing full table scans.
Or sharding on a particular column