a genuine issue! nowhere in my curriculum (engineering) did we learn how to design experiments
RethinkDB postmortem:performing well on real workloads is for suckers! To succeed, optimize useless microbenchmarks! https://github.com/coffeemug/defstartup/blob/master/_drafts/why-rethinkdb-failed.md …pic.twitter.com/Q71PzfZt5I
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@ivanristic …sounds like another instance of “worse is better”Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Afaik they offer you possibility to tune consistency and durability like mongodb does. With opposite defaults though.
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They spot this problem early on, see "th benchmark you are reading is probably wrong" blog post from 2010.
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VW tried to "optimization" performance
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The number of times I've seen people benchmark programming languages on fibonacci suggests as much.
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pretty sad really
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