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Copying their requirements as text (original grammar preserved, including GB and Gb confusions). It's a good glimpse of what unlimited cloud budget does to com
by prepperdev 6y ago
Copying their requirements as text (original grammar preserved, including GB and Gb confusions).
It's a good glimpse of what unlimited cloud budget does to companies. I quote:
"""
* 40x i3.Metal instances (64 vCPU's, 512 Gb ram (more ram, of course, better for those)), 14 Tb nVME e/a (Scylla cluster)
* 70-100x (96 vCPUs, 768 GB RAM) - 4 Tb nVME e/a (PSQL cluster, could use more RAM and CPU, but not easy to get)
* 300-400 various other instances, less picky, generally 8-16 cores w/ 32-64 Gb of ram as available
* Internal traffic ~300-400 Gb of traffic/minute
* External traffic ~100-120 Gb of traffic/minute
"""
- ev1 6y agoWait, is this a joke? This sounds like the worst built infrastructure I've ever heard of where they had more money than engineering sense. Also, Gbpm.
- prepperdev 6y agoI don't believe it's a joke. It still might be a deliberate lie (a random twit is not a real source of knowledge), but so far this is consistent with what we already know. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25769730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25769730
- h2odragon 6y agoWhat's that total up to in "expected AWS bill per week", say?
- ev1 6y agoIt's at least 6 digits a month for the first item alone not including bandwidth, IP, NATGW, or load balancer
- eejit_compiler 6y agoBy my calculations, this is somewhere between 11,680 and 18,560 vCPUs and 83,840 to 122,880 GB of RAM they're asking for. Seems rather excessive for a mid-tier social networking website.
- sschueller 6y agoWhat language is this thing written in that it requires this kind of computing power? Is it an Electron app? /jk
- tinus_hn 6y agoIt’s the server side
- sschueller 6y agoI know, it was supposed to be a joke but I guess I didn't manage to get it across that way.
- Can_Not 6y agoI thought it was clearly a joke, implying they had electron running server-side, maybe even running their app through cypress in production for time travel debugging? But I actually do want to know they language(s) and framework(s).