Re:The AWS and MongoDB Infrastructure of Parse
by luhn on Thursday February 09, 2017 @12:14PM
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Right. I'll remember that next time I'm an infrastructure lead at a company with a 100 million customers ;)
But thanks for pointing out sharding. It can be powerful strategy.
Re:The AWS and MongoDB Infrastructure of Parse
by user5994461 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:15PM
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Once you are at a 100 millions customers company, the urgency becomes to ban all these MySQL and postgre for production systems. Or you need to figure out how to seriously handle a multi master setup in production.
There are the 80% bottom of companies who are just toying around doing small products and MVP, that should stick to what's easy.
There are the 5% at the top who are guaranteed to get 1 million customers no matter what they ship, that should stick to doing things right and sustainable from the start.
Contrary to what the other comment state: sharding and failover are ALWAYS the EASIER choice at scale. The alternative is to be unable to change hardware/systems and to be forced into 15 hours downtime window for every maintenance/upgrade operation, which is a huge liability when you have real users.
The 2 types of companies have opposite priorities.
On the other hand, it gets more and more operationally complex as you add shards and failovers and such. If you KNOW you are going to hit that scale (say you are an established company with 100 million customers), it may not be the right choice.