I see what you mean now. Thing is that we are actively moving from MySQL to
Couch now and migrating tons of data at a time. So in return all the views
need to catch up with all of those new documents. Erlang seems to be a
promising candidate to speed up our development. That's all. I just tried
it yesterday and I'm pretty happy with how much faster it is than
Javascript.



On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Aug 14, 2013, at 9:53 PM, Andrey Kuprianov <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Nope, not misreading anything. And I understand they do. But the sooner
> > they finish the better, wont you agree? It's mainly because of that we
> dont
> > do view updates during weekdays.
>
> OK, you must be using CouchDB for some kind of analytics, or other batch
> processing, if you can get away for _days_ with stale views. Which is a
> totally valid and important use of CouchDB. But it’s completely different
> from using it in a live user-facing application, where changes need to be
> reflected pretty near instantly. That’s why I’m disagreeing with Jason’s
> unqualified statements.
>
> If anyone needs an example, consider a typical online shopping site. Let’s
> say the page that shows the contents of your shopping cart is driven by a
> view query. If a customer adds an item to their cart and then goes to view
> their cart a few seconds later, the item had better show up. If it takes 30
> seconds to show up — let alone a week — that’s going to confuse and annoy
> users.
>
> —Jens

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