Re:SQLite is not a toy database
by pdimitar on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:46AM
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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.
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.