What I Learned at Stripe

Re:What I Learned at Stripe by hbrn on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:26PM (#34974353)

To most people "reaching scale" means either revenue number or number of customers (word "when" implies that).

You can easily reach "scale" (earn millions of dollars, serve millions of customers) while still running on 2-4 web servers.

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Re:What I Learned at Stripe by likeabbas on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:19PM (#34976357)

Name one company that runs 4 servers of ruby and earns millions per year

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Re:What I Learned at Stripe by hbrn on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @09:25PM (#34977986)

Given that very few companies in the world make their infrastructure public and I never worked in a Ruby shop, I can't.

But I've done it with Python and I can't see why Ruby would be any different.

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Re:What I Learned at Stripe by likeabbas on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @10:44AM (#34983552)

A company makes millions of dollars through 4 servers running python?

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Re:What I Learned at Stripe by hbrn on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @02:08PM (#34986827)

Yes, 2-4 web servers. And it's not like they are using most expensive configuration, just 4 vCPU per node. CPU utilization is below 20%, so it could even run on a single node, but that's not good for availability.

Why is that so surprising? Nobody sane does anything CPU-intensive in their webapps.

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