On: The implementation of the UK Covid-19 dashboard

[smarx007]

Did you look at the 3 different (non-trivial) APIs they are offering on top of the dashboard? Though I have a hard time understanding why use PostgreSQL instead of ClickHouse, for example.

[lloydatkinson → smarx007]

No I didn’t tbh, I didn’t read much further. Notice how one sentence says Postgres was chosen because it was somebody’s preference

[foepys → lloydatkinson]

You will always be faster with worse tools you know than with better tools you don't know.

[lloydatkinson → foepys]

True but why does it also need terabytes of storage and 12 worker nodes?

[stuaxo → lloydatkinson]

i imagine getting something up, quicklh waa a priority, rather than spending longer architecting amd optimising.