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The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe (techtrenches.substack.com)

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

Or sharding on a particular column

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