 It's not often appreciated, but I have to say, how Mastodon internals work in terms of performance and scalability are top notch and sets the bar for other projects. It's not the language that matters, the database is the bottleneck, and more importantly how you manage the data schema and structures! 6 comments
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  @dansup How do you mean "That Rust and Node.js project can't scale like Mastodon." Have you forgotten a verb? Regarding relational databases, is database design is no longer taught properly? When I studied computer science in the nineties, it was an important part of the curriculum.  @dansup gotosocial performs far, far beyond mastodon. It mighn't *scale* as well, but it *performs* much better. This difference is very important. Mastodon might serve thousands of users well, it is the worst of all options for a selfhosted -one-man- server. And IMO fediverse software should optimize for small to tiny servers. Mastodon optimizes for big to huge servers.   @dansup I see a lot of mastodon โalternativesโ with a selling point of them being far less complex to set up and administer, with fewer โmoving partsโ. Iโm guessing the trade off is that they donโt scale as well? |
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