Gregory's Server@LeonardoDiOttio Scaling any service to millions of users requires some expertise that most developers and devops never get unless they work for one of the large companies, and from what I understand, they did not poach any FAANG people. Add to that that their developers did not actually develop the software and may lack critical understanding of its internals, and it starts to look like what we're seeing...
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Eugen Rochko
@dentaku @LeonardoDiOttio The question of how to scale a Mastodon server to 1.5 million users is primarily a question of how to scale PostgreSQL to 1.5 million users, because in every other way it's a simple matter of throwing more web workers at it
Leonardo Di Ottio
Eugen Rochko
@LeonardoDiOttio @dentaku Out of the box, Mastodon supports connecting to replicas for read operations. Sharding, which you describe, would have to be manually organized.
Leonardo Di Ottio
@Gargron Yes, there is some analysis that suggests they have a hard time finding the techies to do some of the required work as most tech people are more likely to be in the liberal or libertarian quadrant rather than authoritarian far right. I’m trying to establish whether this struggle is just a technical one or whether there might be other factors at play (economics, politics, loyalty, factions). |
@Gargron @LeonardoDiOttio It would still be interesting whether Mastodon in its current state would be able to scale to 1.5E6 users on a single instance (on the other hand given the federated design it doesn't have to).