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by danneu 3970 days ago
Classic premature optimization.

"Just add another database!"

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From the article:

> Some of you, who have ventured deep into the bowels of databases, will probably point out that doing something like this in a real setup is committing concurrency suicide. All updates to the same row will essentially be executed serially which is no bueno if you're trying to build a performant data pipeline.

LOL. Versus implementing bloom filters in a relational database?
"Let's not over-engineer though."

Implements bloom filters