star_juice

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by star_juice 5y ago
The heavy usage of 3rd party tools does sound about right wrt what I've heard get used to vastly expand apps after they've got a minimum viable product people actually want to use though, particularly the usage of CDNs to reduce l
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by star_juice 5y ago
So a lot of the scalability complaints arise from the fact it's written in Python, but as far as I can tell they're largely newer developers trying to grow some web app they made rather than people presenting at PyCon about why it
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by star_juice 5y ago
Is it possible you could share more specifics about these simulation figures? While I'm still very much pursuing technical/organizational info about what underpins the big scalable services (or the meta-scalable ones like firebase
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by star_juice 5y ago
I've heard this book (assuming it's https://dataintensive.net/ ) recommended before, but some have mentioned it's overly theoretical and doesn't offer much in the way of helping you build working examples
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by star_juice 5y ago
I've heard it recommended before, but some have mentioned it's overly theoretical and doesn't offer much in the way of helping you build working examples of the material (although I suppose the complexity of the material does
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by star_juice 5y ago
Ah gotcha yeah at the small scale(?) scaling we're talking about monolithic applications, being a bit simpler to organize and run, do still make for a compelling solution. That's a great tip regarding how to handle ballooning stor
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by star_juice 5y ago
I'd actually been thinking about giving golang a try after seeing some very clever usage of concurrently operating Go routines, do you know of any particularly interesting server examples you could share? As for the homework... naive a
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by star_juice 5y ago
Alright, you win: this answer is fantastic. This is a far, far better way to think about what limits scalability than simple things like pages served per millisecond. I never did expect to find ready answers that will guide me to making the
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by star_juice 5y ago
Thanks! Do they include coding examples or is it advised you think of your own wrt the material?
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by star_juice 5y ago
This sounds right up my alley honestly, could you explain a bit more about the affordances you set up for the decoupled container component to allow it to grow from a few containers to an orchestrated K8s cluster? Just some insight into how
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by star_juice 5y ago
Given I have zero intention of making it any of those things, and this question was aimed at specifically learning more about the technical underpinnings of the rewarding part, I'm not really sure it's the right advice for what I&
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by star_juice 5y ago
That could work for a smallish CRUD application I think (just using the function as a service approach to really squeeze efficiency out of the compute time), but yeah the specific numbers aren't quite as important as learning about how
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by star_juice 5y ago
Technical debt is a made up problem and cannot hurt you :,( All of this is entirely fair and worth considering, given pretty much all mature frameworks do tend to have some extension or build out option to make them "scalable" as
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by star_juice 5y ago
Thank you for the fleshed out answer! These are the sorts of considerations and solutions I was looking for. The first scaling step is probably the most informative of all though, is it possible you could point me towards additional reading
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by star_juice 5y ago
Ah that makes a bit more sense. Could you possibly point me in a more specific direction, eg a current system design guide aimed at developers just trying to get their feet wet with things more complex than an SPA? Yeah, that issue is one I
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by star_juice 5y ago
So, as I mentioned in the other reply I'm not really trying to start a business here I just want to understand more about the processes and tools underpinning these vast scalable web apps that surround us. But this advice sounds pretty
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by star_juice 5y ago
That's why I put the range starting at 1000 simultaneous users funny enough, but I also wasn't sure if 100k was comically low (I suppose if you just wanted to serve static pages with a jpg and one line of text it might be) or high
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Ask HN: How would you, a solo dev/small team, make a scalable web app in 2022?
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