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commandlinefan
3y ago
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> to mutate the status of individual posts and comment
AKA why you should normalize your data models.
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ElevenLathe
3y ago
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Meh it's a tradeoff usually. De-normalize for better read performance at the expense of some complexity and worse update performance/semantics.
eropple
3y ago
This is true, but FWIW (it probably wouldn't save you here, too much is changing too fast) something like a SQL materialized view can very often give you both the chocolate and the peanut butter.
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