🔗 Advanced inserts with Ecto

Hugo‘s Elixir Radar newsletter recently posted this very useful article on batch updates with ecto by Fabian Becker, that you should definitely read.

This reminded me of some cool stuff that we used to do with ecto working at V7 in the early days of the Darwin product. We actually no longer do this now, because it’s a much larger system, so it’s all about caching, rather than overoptimising, but back then, it fixed a bottleneck, got ous out of some serious downtime and improved performance by an order of mangitude.

We still do cool stuff, of course, but just different kinds of cool stuff.

Anyway, this will be a brief on two of these cool things