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scaling to millions (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 1 year ago by soeren@iusearchlinux.fyi to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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https://www.levels.fyi/blog/scaling-to-millions-with-google-sheets.html

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[–] phorq@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The article doesn't seem to say what type of database they moved to, I'd like to imagine it's an excel spreadsheet...

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem with the spreadsheet was rate limiting by Google. I like to imagine the have the spreadsheet copy and pasted. Then split the requests to two different spreadsheets, doubling the amount of requests they can do.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 13 points 1 year ago

Dear god, parallelized excel spreadsheet databases!