HIVE MIND for software developers: I’d like your help – and your stories!
I’m working on an article with a tentative title of “Tales of the Crypt: Horror stories where database performance caused a real problem.” It’s meant to be schadenfreude nostalgia, about your late nights coping with a performance issue (with, hopefully, a happy ending of “…and this is what we did to fix it”).
So, what happened? Tell me about it.
@estherschindler - Mongo DB was shiny and new. We had just moved into a new building and the boss wanted am interactive "get to know the agency" game for all the customers at the party showing off our new digs. Our developer who was always chasing the hottest new technology decided to use mongo as the backend data source not realizing it had serious performance limitations when doing things like... Summing up and sorting scores. Halfway through the party he did an emergency refactor to MSSQL.