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Speeding up Queries with Materialized Views

Many applications are more read-intensive than write-intensive. Meaning your application performs more reads than writes. However, we often persist data optimized for writes making querying and composing data intensive at runtime. What’s a solution? I will review different ways of creating materialized views and some trade-offs. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Materialized Views If you have a large system decomposed into many different boundaries, you’ll have data spread across many different databases. When you need to perform any query, often for a UI,… Read More »Speeding up Queries with Materialized Views

Implementing Undo functionality

You’re writing an email and click “Send”. Then immediately think, “oh no!” because you sent it to the wrong person. Or maybe you’re checking out of an e-commerce website, click “Place Order” then a couple of minutes go by, and you think, “I shouldn’t have ordered that,” and have buyer’s remorse. You want to cancel or undo the action you performed in both situations. Now put your developer hat on. How would you implement undo functionality in these types of cases? YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything… Read More »Implementing Undo functionality

Biggest scam in software dev? Best Practices.

What’s the biggest scam in tech that is deemed acceptable? Best practices. Everything has trade-offs and your context matters. Let me give various examples to get out of this dogma about best practices. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Best Practices The topic for this video/came up when I came across this tweet from David Fowler. I couldn’t agree more. Too often, best practices, principles, practices, patterns, etc., are treated as rules without considering the reasons they exist or how they apply in your… Read More »Biggest scam in software dev? Best Practices.