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The idea here is that instead of incrementing a single row for a counter, we are now picking a slot and incrementing the count in that slot. This means instead of hammering a single row, we are spreading the updates across 100 rows and reducing the potential for contention.
The Slotted Counter Pattern
planetscale.com
Remember kids, the only difference between fooling around and science is writing it down.
I Remember an Old PhD Comics Strip Where a Professor Says “Remember Kids, the On...
Hacker News
The pandemic highlighted our intimate relationship with biology. Urban tech is already charting these new urban landscapes and frontiers. Sampling sewage for COVID-19 virus was a key source of data that helped anticipate outbreaks in many cities, weeks before clinical tests revealed a new spike. And biomedical researchers are sequencing the microbiomes within urban transit systems in dozens of cities to compare notes on local fauna.
Forecast: Wild & Well | the Future of Urban Tech
futureofurbantech.org
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