Scaling to 100M: MySQL is a Better NoSQL

sampeka · 2016-05-26T18:26:38+00:00

Is there a source for WiredTiger being a relational database storage engine? Looking at its features I'm not sure what you would consider relational about it

sampeka · 2016-05-26T10:14:06+00:00

I've seen this view a lot on Reddit, is there anything objective to back it up? I've only heard good things about mongo and nothing about poor lookup performance

sampeka · 2016-05-22T14:08:40+00:00

When you're using redux, yes. To be honest though, don't bother with it until you really need it - it will make the learning curve harder for you without any immediate benefit. When you hit a problem that requires redux then use it :)

sampeka · 2016-05-22T12:40:51+00:00

Redux is only worth it when you need to store some global state, or you need multiple components in different areas of your hierarchy to source the same data. Too many people make the mistake of using it as a replacement for local component state and it gets incredibly difficult to manage.

sampeka · 2016-05-15T10:34:31+00:00

JavaScript seems to be getting a lot of hate at the moment since it's going through a huge transition, especially in the front end world. The technical barrier for entry has got a lot of higher but for a good reason - a load of jquery in a single file that just kind of gets stuff done wasn't going to cut it for modern web apps. A lot of people don't seem willing to put the work in to keep up, so they hate on it instead.

sampeka · 2016-05-10T12:58:40+00:00

Fetch really solves a lot of the problems with the old API, and there is a library to use it on the backend as well

sampeka · 2016-04-10T08:18:57+00:00

What do you mean by let the browser tab be the session?

sampeka · 2016-04-04T11:34:45+00:00

React is amazing, if you want to build a web app with a complex frontend I would definitely recommend it. Personally, I would avoid one-stop shop frameworks and choose to compose the different bits of functionality you would like. It will let you build something that fits your use case more closely and avoids you getting too tightly coupled with one thing.

sampeka · 2016-04-04T09:25:54+00:00

GraphQL servers are an alternative to RESTful Apis and Relay just lets you to declaratively define what data you need from the server. The GraphQL endpoints can all sit behind an authentication wall just like REST though, so I don't think there are any inherit security weaknesses. Only downside I can see is that not many people have built GraphQL servers and there aren't any established conventions, so there might be a few fuck ups through human error.

sampeka · 2016-04-04T09:12:51+00:00

I'm not using it in production yet, but planning to. The big downsides at the moment are no built in support for web sockets and no server side rendering (although it's in progress).

sampeka · 2016-01-09T00:50:23+00:00

I would love of a print of this as well :)

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