Once upon a time, there was a gnarly query with a lot of OR cases. It was limiting capacity ahead of a high-traffic day. Could it be optimized? Thanks to a few features of Elixir, the answer was yes! Here’s how the Axios mobile app’s capacity increased 600% the day before the 2020 election, in defiance of the standard “push as much processing to the database as possible” advice.
Key Takeaways:
- Sometimes the “usual advice” doesn’t fit
Target Audience:
- Anyone who deals with databases