Software scale's like a pyramid.
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Software scale's like a pyramid. At the tip of the pyramid, you've got your "hyperscale" applications like Google Search and Facebook that require so much hardware that you need complex infrastructure to manage it all.
At the base of the pyramid are the applications that could be handled by a couple of medium-powered servers being managed with a few bash scripts.
For some reason, we all seem to believe we're at the tip of the pyramid.
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Software scale's like a pyramid. At the tip of the pyramid, you've got your "hyperscale" applications like Google Search and Facebook that require so much hardware that you need complex infrastructure to manage it all.
At the base of the pyramid are the applications that could be handled by a couple of medium-powered servers being managed with a few bash scripts.
For some reason, we all seem to believe we're at the tip of the pyramid.
A Raspberry PI could cope with a million visitors a week without breaking a sweat.
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A Raspberry PI could cope with a million visitors a week without breaking a sweat.
If you're worried about peak loads, push the boat out and get another Raspberry Pi. Heck, get four! Spare no expense!
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If you're worried about peak loads, push the boat out and get another Raspberry Pi. Heck, get four! Spare no expense!
@jasongorman Just checked and my Raspberry Pi, which runs this Mastodon instance, handles about 50,000 requests per day. And as you may be aware, ActivityPub is not exactly lightweight.
That’s most of its work, but of course it’s doing other things too.
Currently running at around 10% of max CPU, and RAM is at around 25%.
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@jasongorman Just checked and my Raspberry Pi, which runs this Mastodon instance, handles about 50,000 requests per day. And as you may be aware, ActivityPub is not exactly lightweight.
That’s most of its work, but of course it’s doing other things too.
Currently running at around 10% of max CPU, and RAM is at around 25%.
@samir I vote we start a new movement: "Small Tech"
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@samir I vote we start a new movement: "Small Tech"
@jasongorman I don’t understand, how will we give all our money to the big tech companies if we don’t use their stuff?
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@jasongorman I don’t understand, how will we give all our money to the big tech companies if we don’t use their stuff?
@samir @jasongorman what if we used a low end AI to create our own advertising and data collection that we block and run that all on a raspberry pi in the basement?
