#BreakingUpdate: Political Leader of Friends of Democracy Karina Goodridge and Ryan Walters of the Democratic Labour Party officially selected & sworn in as the Opposition Senators by President Bostic; this comes following the submission of Senate nominations from opposition parties to The President.
Section 75 of the Barbados Constitution indicates The President will exercise his/her discretion in the appointment of Opposition senators where there is no Leader of Opposition in the House.
@SF3frankie Idk the times, but when giving the final result, the returning officer said that they had had to recount several boxes which delayed the final tally.
Condoms normalize and encourage safer sex, which is objectively necessary. A rose is not a preventative measure. It wasn’t necessary for the goodie bag in the slightest. Positioning it as equivalent to condoms is irresponsible. Full stop.
i enjoy react native development SO FKN MUCH. no fkn annoying browser ui that shifts up and down for no reason and stacking modals don't work and sticky shit doesn't work and keyboard isn't predictable and blah blah blah FCK THE FCKN WEB PLATFORM BURN IT WITH FIRE
NATIVE FTW
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Sharding. Database sharding is one of the common techniques to scale a database horizontally. You split the db into small parts called shards and distribute them across machines.
Shards are typically in the few hundreds or even thousands (for extremely large databases). Usually there's a proxy that routes queries to the right shards and does aggregation for cross-shard queries. Even though the db is split across multiple machines, it's still logically a single database. They're all "connected".
But...what if we flipped this around? What if we ran disconnected databases that all acted as a single logical db?
Think of applications like Notion, Figma, or Google Docs — each document is disconnected from the others. The key insight: each document gets very few write requests since users are making changes manually. If each document is its own database, it can easily handle all requests without breaking a sweat.
Running a million Postgres or MySQL instances sounds crazy and is total overkill. But embedded databases like SQLite, lmdb, and RocksDB fit this perfectly. They're just files! A Figma document could just be stored as a SQLite file in the backend. You'd also need libSQL or SQLite with lightstream for backup/replication. Since some of these embedded databases can run as WASM in the browser, each document could sync its own file directly with a backend db with some CRDT.
I'd bet this model can handle way more writes per second than a sharded Postgres/MySQL setup. Even on a tiny machine, I can run millions of SQLite databases.
The downsides: You'd only need this at "scale". The entire architecture assumes you don't need cross-shard queries. So this only works for applications where each document is truly an individual entity. You'd have to handle schema management manually or do it in the application layer. You also can't do mass migrations easily.
I call this Limitless Sharding.
Couple months ago I was asked to build an app for Carifesta XV and the usual problem is during negotiation they usually want the world of features by yesterday and with a budget of $100 🥹