Re:Post mortem on mastodon outage with 30k users (hachyderm)
by ilyt on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:22PM
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> You can find posts from people who were hosting their own single user instance that went down because of a popular post that got federated across multiple instances.
I either understand something wring about it or that still points out to Mastodon being slow and badly engineered.
Like, the updates are per server not subscriber right ? That's at worst few thousand requests, all of them can be essentially served from RAM. Even if you get 10k responses to your comment, 10k responses within say 5 minutes is still only like 30-40 req/sec, that shouldn't be much even for Ruby
I either understand something wring about it or that still points out to Mastodon being slow and badly engineered.
Like, the updates are per server not subscriber right ? That's at worst few thousand requests, all of them can be essentially served from RAM. Even if you get 10k responses to your comment, 10k responses within say 5 minutes is still only like 30-40 req/sec, that shouldn't be much even for Ruby