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Re: Show HN: Clickvote – Open-source upvotes, likes, and reviews to any context

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

ransom1538 wrote: post #30
bastawhiz wrote: post #9

Why do you need Kafka, Redis, Mongo, AND Postgres? Arguably it could all be done with Postgres or Redis: both have great pubsub implementations. But what could you possibly need two databases for and a queue implementation alongside a popular backend for queues? I don't mean to criticize, but the complexity of this is what I'd expect for something handling hundreds if not thousands of qps. Even then I'd expect you co…

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Some tools are good for some jobs. Other tools are good for other jobs. There's no "war".

Re: Show HN: Clickvote – Open-source upvotes, likes, and reviews to any context

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Post by nevodavid10 »

that_guy_iain wrote: post #29

For me, this looks like it's useful for those wanting to create a new Reddit or similar style site. It removes the need to build a scalable upvote system.

In my weird dream, people will attach likes to everything :)

Re: Show HN: Clickvote – Open-source upvotes, likes, and reviews to any context

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Post by tomcam »

Congratulations for creating a product that I believe will most certainly find a market. Like the others, I believe you could dramatically simplify the architecture, but mad props for just publishing your MVP, and throwing it to the sharks of HN.

It seems very clear to me that many of these sharks have never tried to implement a similar system.

Re: Show HN: Clickvote – Open-source upvotes, likes, and reviews to any context

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Post by pjot »

ransom1538 wrote: post #30
bastawhiz wrote: post #9

Why do you need Kafka, Redis, Mongo, AND Postgres? Arguably it could all be done with Postgres or Redis: both have great pubsub implementations. But what could you possibly need two databases for and a queue implementation alongside a popular backend for queues? I don't mean to criticize, but the complexity of this is what I'd expect for something handling hundreds if not thousands of qps. Even then I'd expect you co…

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  pg_dump --schema-only --table=tablename databasename

Re: Show HN: Clickvote – Open-source upvotes, likes, and reviews to any context

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Post by bastawhiz »

ransom1538 wrote: post #30
bastawhiz wrote: post #9

Why do you need Kafka, Redis, Mongo, AND Postgres? Arguably it could all be done with Postgres or Redis: both have great pubsub implementations. But what could you possibly need two databases for and a queue implementation alongside a popular backend for queues? I don't mean to criticize, but the complexity of this is what I'd expect for something handling hundreds if not thousands of qps. Even then I'd expect you co…

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This is an awfully petty hill to die on, especially for this website. The material difference between Postgres and MySQL for the overwhelming majority of users is insignificant. They're both good pieces of software and there are hardly any features missing in either that anyone who's not a DBA would miss when comparing one to the other. It's like arguing against using Firefox because Chrome "won the war". Who do you think you're convincing?

Re: Show HN: Clickvote – Open-source upvotes, likes, and reviews to any context

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Post by linuxdude314 »

When designing a tool, scalability should be a feature not a requirement. There isn't so much value in creating scalable tools these days as they exist in abundance. What is rarer and more useful are tools that are easy to use at small scale that work without minimal modification and headaches at scale.

Unless you're only running one instance of this, it probably makes sense to scale back immediately otherwise your costs are going to balloon. Even then the horizontal scaling requirements of some of the "parallel" subsystems will get incredibly expensive fast.

Re: Show HN: Clickvote – Open-source upvotes, likes, and reviews to any context

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Post by worksonmine »

_a9 wrote: post #27

I've been looking for something to integrate in my site that just lets unauthed users to add upvotes, downvotes, and maybe some extra ones like 'recommend' or a few general ones like 'cat/dog'. Dont need any alaytics or extras. Are there any recommended good self-hosted alternatives? This looks nice but requires quite the stack of services.

Up- and downvotes without authentication will be abused.
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