Let’s build something Outrageous – Part 11: Testing Helene has been testing software since we met in college back in 1999. Today she is the head of QA at S&P Market Intelligence managing hundreds of people. I don’t know how she does it but she is the kind of person that breaks every piece of software she touches… even when she doesn’t want […]
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Let’s build something Outrageous – Part 10: Nulls We decided that our Nodes and Relationships will have Schema in our database. If we create a User Node Type and set an “age” property type as an Integer, then all User nodes will have that property as an Integer. This idea seem simple enough, but what happens if we truly don’t know the value […]
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Let’s build something Outrageous – Part 9: Docker In the movie “Field of Dreams“, a voice can be heard saying “If you build it, he will come“. For some reason people got that mixed up with “if you build it, they will come” and it became a bit of a trap that many engineers fall for. The myth being that if you build […]
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Let’s build something Outrageous – Part 8: Queries with Lua Jamie Brandon wrote a monster of a blog post the other day against SQL. This is my favorite part: To take an example close to my heart: Differential dataflow is a dataflow engine that includes support for automatic parallel execution, horizontal scaling and incrementally maintained views. It totals ~16kloc and was mostly written by a single person. Materialize adds support for […]
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Let’s build something Outrageous – Part 7: Performance I don’t know why, but I need things to be fast. Nothing drives me up the wall more than waiting a long time for some database query to finish. It’s some kind of disease I tell you. So today we’re doing to do a little performance checking to see where RageDB is at. So far […]
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