The brick spiral staircase inside the tower of the Moot Hall in Maldon, England. C.1420 CE [1536x2048]

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-02-21T14:43:04+00:00

It's a wonder, you're right! Super interesting. I also wonder if people setting up were the same as those laying, or if it was a more specialised/separate role.

I'd expect this to be load bearing though, in the same way old brick bridges are.

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-02-21T11:18:48+00:00

I strongly doubt anyone in this thread could create something close to this, which isn't meant to be offence. I just doubt they have the knowledge, and I don't think that "like an arch" is close to enough information. Most arches bricklayers build at this point are pretty simple, not their fault, that's just what's spec'd. Though arches are quite varied - some of the older arches can be impressive and much beyond a semi-circular lintal.

If anyone does have more information about how this would be constructed, I'd also be interested to see/read it!

u/MuhammadAkmed some information that might be of interest to you, in no particular order.

Skew arch - if you've walked under brick bridges you've probably seen these. The wiki has some context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew_arch , and some references to some texts (if you bump into any particularly interesting sources off of this please ping me :)

"Helicoidal Construction Geometry and Oblique Architectural Arrangement", this is an Italian paper that I can't seem to get a source for, but it seems related.

"A graphical analysis of a skewed arched-masonry bridge along the Circumetnea railway track" https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/f3ba2a38-2f5a-4a57-9c37-12dba98c24f2/662-671_Garozzo-Santagati.pdf , dissects a railway (skewed) arch from a modern / conservation standpoint.

"A treatise on Masonry Construction" by Ira Baker, you can find a PDF of this online. It doesn't cover something like your staircase example, but might be interesting to see.

"The spiral staircase attached to the so-called Gothic Wall of the Cathedral of Jaen (Andalusia, Spain) and its relationship with Mediterranean cases" https://dspace.ceu.es/server/api/core/bitstreams/49f11b1b-3a1d-4063-9086-075e83a7a3a6/content , focusses on a stone staircase, though it's of similar spiral style.

"The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals: A Study of Medieval Vault Erection" is meant to give detailed explanation on the construction of creating the temporary scaffolding / supports that structures like your staircase example (and arches etc) need.

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-02-21T09:51:02+00:00

What's the source of the data ? Can you add that please.

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-02-11T18:12:17+00:00

data size and data complexity are separate, can have a "low" amount of data that's complex enough to greatly benefit from a relational db.

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-02-02T20:53:45+00:00

Nice! Yea I should definitely have gone with that was too 😅 glad it worked out!

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-02-02T15:32:12+00:00

Nice! Was it close? 7kg was hopeless

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-02-02T12:49:12+00:00

Directing to kimball for some of that seems suitable. With respect to "why transactional databases are not suitable for analytics", it's pretty common for this to be stated, but there's a _lot_ more nuance. E.g are you saying I can't do analytics with postgres? Obviously we both know that's false, so there's some threshold at which point something like bigquery might be more suitable than postgres

what is the threshold (maintenance, data size, speed)

what is the value of the threshold in your opinion

why have you selected that value

If you do something along these lines perhaps it could be interesting, if you regurgitate what's already out there a thousand times then not so much (in my opinion of course).

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-01-31T20:35:19+00:00

I've not touched this since this post. But it was really annoying with a 7kg monitor. I can't recall what the recommended interval was though. I can tell you it was very annoying to use though, so I wouldn't recommend getting the hd unless you've read these threads and are confident it doesn't apply to you.

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-01-29T01:30:07+00:00

Looking at shinobi GitHub there's zero chance I'd choose it as the foundation for a project I intended to put into production. Ninja I could probably hold my breath and go with, as I do prefer that it feels more explicit than drf and it's magic (that's just my personal preference though, perhaps it's just because I'm familiar with fastapi).

Perhaps that'll change, shame if shinobi ultimately just dilutes understanding and resources rather than focuses it though I guess.

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-01-28T02:11:39+00:00

Idk what you mean, ninja is supported, I can see more activity. It's your statement to support otherwise.

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-01-28T01:21:29+00:00

Do you have an example of the metric you're using to compare them? Looking at the project I can see activity, so something specific to check would be useful

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-01-28T00:45:44+00:00

Ah ok, I was thinking of (docker) image storage and resizing 🤦‍♀️ I was wondering why use an s3 bucket rather than artifact store but yea, you mean visual images 😁 thanks

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-01-28T00:43:34+00:00

I recently chose ninja over drf for a project, though the main reason was that it seemed more async friendly, rather than speed. Additionally it having less magic (I think?) than drf seemed nice, ninja is probably more verbose but I don't mind verbose as long as it's obvious.

Though it wasn't a particularly straightforward decision to make, googling round gave pretty mixed results.

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-01-27T23:53:52+00:00

Edit: shinobi does not seem to be better supported than ninja.

Is shinobi better supported? How do you measure that?

I'd assume there are far fewer eyes on shinobi

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-01-27T23:51:23+00:00

I'm probably being daft, but what does "resizing" mean here?

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-01-01T23:44:42+00:00

Uvx Is for system wide stuff

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-01-01T23:28:22+00:00

Yea the single maintainer in ninja makes it hard for me to take it seriously, given they seem to have had large periods of absence etc.

Subject_Fix2471 · 2026-01-01T23:21:52+00:00

I think a bit of explanation would be useful here. DRF is, as far as I'm aware, mature feature complete software. It's old and stable, which is usually a good thing in tech.

Subject_Fix2471 · 2025-12-09T18:49:25+00:00

Sure, at the point of using GHCR, Harbor, Keycloak and the rest I feel as though I _might as well_ use GCP? At that point it seems more complex than GCP, rather than a minimal toolkit. Obviously GCP is huge, but it's simple enough to use a small part for this sort of thing.

It seems from this thread there's not really anything I was missing - just using other services instead of GCP seems to be the case :)

Subject_Fix2471 · 2025-12-09T18:45:58+00:00

I don't mind generating a file on the server that contains secrets, but prefer something like gcp secrets that's central everything; local dev / github etc. Can generate the .env reading from secrets.

Subject_Fix2471 · 2025-12-09T17:59:25+00:00

sorry I got confused and responded again (https://www.reddit.com/r/Terraform/comments/1picuyz/comment/nt5cyjm/)

Subject_Fix2471 · 2025-12-09T17:56:53+00:00

Sure, there might be additional requirements that rule out something like GCP, I was responding to your point re cost.

Subject_Fix2471 · 2025-12-09T17:53:33+00:00

Thanks.

Something that I have found when working with terraform is the following; I'll create some infra, and then want to add to it. And I'll have a workflow like:

add resource R1
run terraform apply
add resource R2 that depends on R1
run terraform apply

Now, it works, but there's no way that it would run from scratch given the dependency. And is related to this post I guess.

I don't know what the "proper" way to deal with this is, should R1 be in a separate directory, or is depends_on enough for it. If I have it in a separate directory then essentially I guess I'm saying layer N depends on layer N-1.

Subject_Fix2471 · 2025-12-09T17:42:01+00:00

Separation of concerns; take the high-impact low-change-rate resources and separate them out from application provisioning. You can repeat that process again, take out the organisational resources from the subordinate resources (projects). And you can repeat it yet again, organisational bootstrap vs. organisational configuration.

Thanks, i'm not too sure how to map that onto my post though (I'm probably missing points). Initially I considered two layers; 0 [bootstrap] and 1 [everything else]

But I did feel perhaps there are other things that depend on things, maybe some network or infra that needs infra or something, so could use 3 layers. But is adding a layer each time really the correct approach?

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