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A backfill and a customer dashboard can use the same tables. They shouldn't share the…

A backfill and a customer dashboard can use the same tables. They shouldn't share the same compute. When both run on a…

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A backfill and a customer dashboard can use the same tables. They shouldn't share the same compute. When both run on a single Duckling, the backfill takes the CPU and memory. A customer's sub-second query fights it for both, and the analytics page in your app looks broken. MotherDuck gives each user or service account its own compute, called a Duckling, plus its own pool of read-only Ducklings. Isolation becomes a question of how you split the work. A typical data app needs three setups: 1/ Pipelines get their own service account, with a Duckling sized for the heaviest job. A long backfill

Posted by MotherDuck (10.7k followers) 1 days ago · 4 likes · 528 views · view the original post on X. Kept by the Dev Radar as Databases. Tools mentioned: MotherDuck.

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