Re:SQLite is not a toy database
by danielheath on Thursday March 25, 2021 @09:12PM
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I don’t know about on-prem for serving external workloads; getting a reliable, redundant, high-speed connection can cost far more than paying for colocation at a DC that’ll do at least as good a job. If you’re lucky they’ll even install fire suppression systems.
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Yep, can't argue with that.
Still, for the cloud I started preferring going for Rust (where applicable!) and optimizing the hell out of the performance hot-spots. So far the results have only been crushing successes. Horizontal scaling has been employed only as a means of backup instances with a load balancer in front of them. And for blue/green deployments.
Horizontal scaling hasn't been at all necessary otherwise. A $25 instance never got north of 15% CPU for one of the services I rewrote. I/O utilization never got beyond 60% and is usually 3-5%.
But I can agree that the cloud has unquestionable benefits. It's just that I feel that their number is gradually dwindling.