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Christopher Maier
Personal blog · christophermaier.nameprogramming
Christopher Maier's personal blog at christophermaier.name covers programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on Postmark's MongoDB outage retrospective. The one comment only explains MongoDB's per-record key storage overhead and does not judge the writing.
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What Hacker News says?
The main overhead for MongoDB's storage is that the "column name" (keys) is stored in every record rather than just once as with traditional SQL database and some of the other NoSQL solutions. That is why you'll often see developers using very short key names, and one use for an "ORM" to translate between developer friendly names and short stored names. Of course this can be solved fairly easily by the MongoDB devel…
Comment linking /blog/2011/05/22/MongoDB-key-names
on “Retrospective from Postmark on outages (MongoDB)”Submitted Writing Elegant Clojure Code Using Higher-Order Functions as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Query DSL using Clojure and MongoDB as a story · 25 points
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