I just tested a larger set of data using my Plugin Data Jedi as I saw a couple of posts today about larger lists of data. One in particular was interesting to me.
The question was about creative ways to reduce WUs for large lists of data like 100,000 things. I didn’t test with 100,000, I did test with 51,200 and was able to Fetch, then Modify and then Save all 51,200 things for less than 45 WUs in less than 5 minutes on the Client Device using a Mac Desktop from 2013.
Hey @boston85719 I just watched this, I’m struggling to understand the use case. Is this best for doing large tasks as an App Admin – or would you build a user-facing feature using this tool?
This sounds like one of the hidden secret plugins that could save everyone a lot of money.
For the video you watched, the use case was to demonstrate a creative way to reduce WUs for large lists of data.
I wouldn’t build much of anything with the setup as done in the video, because regardless of how cheap it costs to fetch, modify and save the large lists using this tool, working with such large lists is resource intensive. There are countless use cases though for fetching, modifying and saving data for less WUs. If I were to need to build something that would modify 50,000 items, I’d set it up slightly differently and make it chunks of 5,000.
But, generally, if you think about how WUs has made so many different types of apps dead in the water if built on Bubble, you can think of a use case for the plugin to make it a way to revive from the dead these types of apps. Imagine running an app that is monetized through adverts and you have large amounts of content that drive traffic to the app, keep the eyes on the content and the advertising money rolling in. In a legacy approach to database structuring in Bubble, that type of monetization strategy is impossible, but with a hybrid data structuring approach you can serve up to 33,000 users up to 10,000 things (page load = 0.15 data fetch = 0.15 plus content = 5 WUs) users per month your content on the Starter Plan in Bubble at some $30/month.
But to be honest, in the 4-5 months I’ve been building using the plugin, I am short on ideas of what is not a good use case for it. But, this video was not to serve a purpose of demonstrating a use case of a live app. It was an exercise in exemplifying what creative approaches to reducing WUs on large data sets exist.
Another could be this post from yesterday. Another could be to have a list of things greater than 10,000 things and bypass the hard limit from Bubble…there are quite a few ‘not possible’ to do things in Bubble the plugin and hybrid data structuring make possible.
