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scaling to millions (iusearchlinux.fyi)

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https://www.levels.fyi/blog/scaling-to-millions-with-google-sheets.html

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (7 children)

There's a really fine line between needing a spreadsheet and needing a database and I've not yet found it. It's probably more fuzzy than I realized but I have participated on so many programming projects that amounted to a spreadsheet that lived too long.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

At some point you end up surpassing databases and end up with a giant pile of spreadsheets called a data warehouse

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