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The Million Indexes Incident (heap.io)
3 points by kmdupree on Oct 1, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Interesting architecture for sure to create a partial index every time a user creates a new event. One question I have that wasn't clear: how fast is that event queryable by the user after it is created? It sounds like there is a redis queue that manages the creation of the indexes and I imagine that takes some time to work through.


Great question! For new events we have 8 workers that process multiple customers at a time so the time to querability is typically pretty fast!




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