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Coding like it’s 1999

“Run into an obstacle in what you’re working on? Hmm, I wonder what’s new online. Better check.”

If you haven’t already, you should start reading Paul Graham’s essays. In one on philosophy, Graham believes that many of the answers provided by philosophy are useless because “…of how little effect they have”. By that standard another of his essays is of high utility because it has affected the way I program. John Stuart Mill would be pleased.

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Increasing bleve indexing performance with sharding

bleve-logoSearch is everywhere. Once you’ve built search systems, you see its potential application in many places. So when I came across bleve, an open-source search library written in Go, I was interested in learning more about its feature set and its indexing performance. And I could see immediately one might be able to shard it to improve performance.

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