Marcus Vance

Full-stack engineer building distributed platforms.

1. Connection pooling vs read replicas for a 50k-member forum

   We used to raise `max_connections` whenever p99 login latency spiked. After about 4_000 concurrent sessions that stopped working — the wait moved to row locks on `topic_subscript...

2. Can polls be limited to one vote per member without a new table?

   We are using the Poll template and counting upvotes on the original post as the "yes" vote. That collides with ranking. Is there a supported vote model, or should we wait for a de...

3. Accepted-answer bounty that does not look like ads

   Let question authors offer reputation for a verified answer. Keep it off Job and Review templates. If it looks like sponsored content, we should not ship it.

4. Fathom Analytics plugin directory as Showcase

   Each plugin is a Showcase with entity software, not a new Plugin type. Releases still use the Release template. We linked the GitHub org in entity_url so crawlers get a real SoftwareApplication.

5. Do we want markdown tables in the composer toolbar?

   Tables exist in the renderer. The toolbar still hides them.