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by jll29
1608 days ago
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It's funny to read about a dashboard with TBs of memory and distributed DBs when on HN, people pride themselves on getting Web servers to run on floppy disk based systems. Joking aside, I liked the description of the dashboard, and generally speaking the UK's government Web sites are better quality, support open data more, are easier to read and navigate than other European countries from what I have seen. This includes this dashboard, which looks clean, simple and functional. I was waiting for the big SQL Server advertising language and positively suprised that the article is very tech agnostic. I did all seem to be rather over-engineered, but Microsoft needs to make some money and government agencies don't generally have wizards from HN working for them, so I can live with an occasionally over-engineered system as long as important systems are working and remain up. The most mysterious part for me was why one would put JSON inside relational tables? |
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Cheap and easy way to permit a flexible schema for some part of the data. Performance tests probably showed that for their specific query workload, any slow down from parsing/lack of index was fine.