ConfPad

Have you ever worked on a project for several months, only to realize right before the end date that there’s a fundamental flaw in your approach? In this talk I’ll tell the story of how our team built a new data management system which started as a fairly straightforward Elasticsearch index but then at the last minute evolved into a Frankenstein-esque database + search index hybrid that is still in use today. I’ll also point out where it all went wrong to hopefully help others avoid the same mistakes in the future.