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Headline: "building Twitter at Twitter-scale" Article: "building Mastodon at sub-Twitter-scale"
The point isn't the Mastodon instance, but rather that Rama enabled us to build it at scale with in a tiny amount of code and time.
> How is it possible that we’ve reduced the cost of building scalable applications by multiple orders of magnitude? > You can begin to understand this by starting with a simple observation: you can describe Mastodon (or Twitter, Reddit, Slack, Gmail, Uber, etc.) in total detail in a matter of hours. It has profiles, follows, timelines, statuses, replies, boosts, hashtags, search, follow suggestions, and so on. It doe…
eta: they say that had it but removed it because apparently it's not something mastodon supports. so I guess it is a pretty good high level implementation.
I work in marketing automation, and I guess I have in one way or another my entire career. The clients who need to use the platform to communicate with their own clients over social networking may never touch our print delivery system, but that doesn't mean that print delivery doesn't exist or isn't important.
If you are unwilling to recreate the totality of the application in terms of functionality, then you are lying if you say that you have recreated it.
They deserve congrats for that since they built the load test to prove this Of course, for actual production use, there's probably a lot of things still, but this is a very nice works nonetheless
This write-up is very detailed but I couldn't find that explanation.
They deserve congrats for that since they built the load test to prove this Of course, for actual production use, there's probably a lot of things still, but this is a very nice works nonetheless
I wouldn't call our instance a load test, as it's a legitimate instance available for anyone to use. It's very much production-grade.
> The instance has 100M bots posting 3,500 times per second at 403 average fanout to demonstrate its scale.
> How is it possible that we’ve reduced the cost of building scalable applications by multiple orders of magnitude? > You can begin to understand this by starting with a simple observation: you can describe Mastodon (or Twitter, Reddit, Slack, Gmail, Uber, etc.) in total detail in a matter of hours. It has profiles, follows, timelines, statuses, replies, boosts, hashtags, search, follow suggestions, and so on. It doe…
To be fair they developed this whole new platform to build this app with. I guess that's where the effort went.