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Re:Building a highly-available web service without a database by 1oooqooq on Saturday August 10, 2024 @07:03AM (#41208674)
their use case is mostly-never-retrieved images!

they store the index of files only in memory. and have the entire build time to fetch build-1 images to get ready for the diff.

it's much easier than most use cases

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Re:Building a highly-available web service without a database by annacappa on Saturday August 10, 2024 @08:17AM (#41208955)
So all of this ram is being used and is only accessed sporadically if at all. This is not good. Sounds like you could implement the entire thing on a micro db instance (redis or a regular db) with no raft or any other custom implementation or messing.
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