If you have ever run DESCRIBE HISTORY on a Delta table that receives streaming data every 60 seconds and watched it either hang for hours or crash with an OutOfMemoryError, you are not alone and you are not doing anything wrong. The problem is architectural, and once you understand the internals, the fix becomes a lot clearer. Here is what I learned after digging into why this happens and what you
I like servers. Not in a "let me spend Saturday hand-tuning nginx" way. More in a "this $6 VPS is sitting right here and could probably run half my side projects" way. The weird part is that deploying to one still feels more complicated than it should. For a lot of small and medium web apps, the app itself is not the hard part. The annoying part is everything around it: building the app getting it