When scrolling through Lemmy, I often will see the same posts from the previous page - usually as the first links on the current page I’m on.

  • 4am@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    “Let’s have each user take an individual snapshot of the database to scroll over until they refresh like in ZFS” ok buddy

    Tell me you’ve dabbled in homelab stuff without telling me you’ve never designed a high traffic web backend

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      1 year ago

      Sir, you hardly know me! Disagree fine, but don’t assume my pedigree.

      FWIW temporal tables, and time travel are real things available now and they are built very similarly to ZFS versioning.

      If we are truly trying to make a highly scalable distributed website, we wouldn’t be querying a database directly, would be using something distributed. Like foundationDB, or memcached. And we would have to modify our approach somewhat, but these are still solvable problems. The architecture and the requirements are tightly coupled. But we can’t make assumptions and rule out solutions at the whiteboard stage.

    • Kayn@dormi.zone
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      1 year ago

      Why do you have to be so condescending from the get-go? Just explaining why it wouldn’t work would have been fine.

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        1 year ago

        To be fair it’s in response to a guy that started off by calling the programmers lazy.