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Re:You don't need a database, a queue, a distributed system:... by vishnugupta on Monday March 11, 2024 @08:06AM (#39667095)
Title: You don't need a database.

Half way down the article: The questions are stored in a sqlite database

Re:You don't need a database, a queue, a distributed system:... by pluc on Monday March 11, 2024 @08:09AM (#39667124)
FAQ

Does it scale?

No.

oh good

Re:You don't need a database, a queue, a distributed system:... by sgundo on Monday March 11, 2024 @08:21AM (#39667243)
I am gonna be honest, I was laughing writing that part! :)
Re:You don't need a database, a queue, a distributed system:... by moribvndvs on Monday March 11, 2024 @10:43AM (#39668854)
> It means that scalability would become an issue if and when Binary Duel is used by more than a few thousands of people an hour. In this fortunate case, I will be very happy to host the infrastructure on a K8 cluster with autoscaling, self-healing, a distributed database, a Redis server and so on.