Past ideas (~2020) Ideas for Octopus
Koichi Sasada edited this page Feb 19, 2021
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Octopus (https://github.com/thiagopradi/octopus) is a database sharding implementation for ActiveRecord.
Currently, Octopus code relies on a heavily monkey-patch code base - which has caused some trouble for us (both maintainer and users) to support different versions of Rails. This idea is to rewrite it's internals, while extracting a few pieces of code in separate gems.
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Prerequisites: Familiarity with Ruby and ActiveRecord
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Programming areas include: Ruby, ActiveRecord, Databases
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Estimated difficulty level: easy to medium
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Potential mentors: @thiagopradi