Re:Show HN: WunderBase – Serverless OSS database on top of S...
by shabbatt on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:44PM
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Interesting, do you have plans to support GPU as well? I can see this is a bottom up approach: put a low load instance close to the user for reads and have a globally synced write that should handle race conditions etc
Are there cold start delays? From the moment I type domain.com is it going to spin up a fly instance closest to me and serve the SQLite database reads?
I'm gonna give this a go this weekend to see what it can do
Re:Show HN: WunderBase – Serverless OSS database on top of S...
by tptacek on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:49PM
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This is getting into Fly.io stuff and not WunderBase or SQLite stuff. GPU is a ways off for us: the programming interface for GPUs is tricky to implement with full isolation between VMs. The post we're commenting on talks a bit about cold start delays (a couple hundred milliseconds).
(You're not generally "reaching back to the central source of truth to compare" things, so much as "satisfying the write centrally and shipping out the new database pages back to the read replicas at the edges").
More on this model: https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/