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		gkalin59 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Congratulations on creating the one billionth repo... You stream CDC events to have a 1 to 1 read replica in something like Snowflake/Databricks where you can run all kinds of OLAP workflows on this analytics db replica.

robertlagrant 5 months ago [–]

Oh, sure, but wouldn't the whole website be served out of a read-friendly database? Why would you have a separate "analytics" database to the main database(s) driving the site?

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