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0 pointseddsh19943y ago0 comments

Split the DB from the app and replicate with a load balancer?

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Now you have "Production Twitter on three machines". Follow the rabbit and you end up with something like what Twitter looks like today.

threeseed3y ago

That database is going to need to be clustered as well for resiliency.

Sounds like you already have quite a number of different containers already.

eddsh1994OP3y ago

Four vms isn’t too bad to manage, I was the first dev at a startup that went prelaunch to acquisition from 2 App/DB servers in EC2 for a mobile app that hit #1 on both stores with a fairly high user tx rate and some ML stuff.

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