TL;DR: Move Service Locator calls up the object graph iteratively. ALSO: Poor Man's Dependency Injection breaks testing. Avoid it. More and more, application architecture is migrating towards Dependency Injection to decouple components and ease testing. One of the challenges… continue reading
Running Elasticsearch at scale can be challenging by itself. When adding multitenancy to the equation it can be hard to know what direction to take. At BigCommerce we use Elasticsearch for all the search features on our clients storefronts. As… continue reading
About once a year, there's a blog post from one of the current Tech Unicorns about how they had a big data problem and solved it with a slightly non-standard usage of MySQL. This is a really good thing, because… continue reading
Continuing the discussion around transactions, consistency, and MySQL, we consider transaction isolation levels. Setting the TXIL Per Session Remember in MySQL we have auto-commit=1. When you set the transaction isolation level with a statement, that only lasts one transaction… continue reading
What's Been Happening Recently Is consistency even important? We know it's contentious. Some people find it extremely important, and we all at least pay lip service to it. But really... how much effort should we put toward making sure we've… continue reading