prithvi24
Joined 9 years ago
Joined 9 years ago
what does a large context window have anything to do with google's data moat?
Hosted Vitess sounds amazing - love this - 0 downtime migrations w/ Percona on RDS still suck and waste a lot of time
Also , I get the simpler tech, but complexity breeds failure - if you have a hybrid on prem / cloud model, especially with only 250k skus, at that point doesn’t it make sense to keep that exclusively in the cloud.
It’s a system that scans a barcode and returns an item at its core - this is still well under the limits of using an off the shelf system like Redis behind an endpoint
I ofc don’t know what I dont know, but super curious if anyone has insight into why such a complex system is required
Also, if this microservice is used for brick and mortgage mortar, can’t imagine more than a couple hundred per second? ( 2000 stores, 5 registers a store - and humans manually scanning items ) - why did that overload the micro service (guessing it wasn’t an endless exponential backoff)