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Can somebody help me please? I must have taken the wrong turn and ended up in a parallel reality where 540MB are called "featherweight" :-p

oso2k 5y ago
I hear ya...but when 6 years old servers were configured with 1TB of RAM... shrugs
- dijit 5y ago
  Servers? Isn’t everything a VM now? (Only slightly kidding. Feels like nobody really wants to operate hardware these days so it’s all outsourced. The idea of paying for TiB memory VMs is insane!)
  - melony 5y ago
    Still cheaper than hiring more developers, it is hard to make the business case for more robust software when outsourcing everything to AWS and throwing RAM at the problem is more cost effective than hiring bodies.
akvadrako 5y ago
It's not so much a parallel reality as you seem to have been transported from the past. These days a calculator app might take 540MB.
- MuffinFlavored 5y ago
  Opened Calculator on my Mac, 26mb according to Activity Monitor
nwmcsween 5y ago
Sorry this is the k8s train, anything less than 1GB of ram is lightweight, anything less than 768MB is featherweight and anything lower than 512MB doesn't exist.
djupblue 5y ago
So here's a challenge if anyone is up for it: Build a container orchestration engine that can run in 16MB of RAM on top of a Linux kernel. Must have: - Some form of networking (duh) - Distributed state - Distributed message queue (simple) - Distributed scheduler - Logging Out of scope: - Authorization/Authentication/Encryption - REST/JSON/SSL/Web
- MuffinFlavored 5y ago
  distributed state like memcached? what is popular for lightweight distributed message queue? what is popular for lightweight distributed scheduler? is cron.. "distributed"?
- codedokode 5y ago
  Do you need all of that for a software run on a Raspberry Pi (as article suggests) or similar embedded devices? I think just one application binary should be enough.
  - netizen-936824 5y ago
    Is there some reason all of those things could not exist in the same binary?

oso2k 5y ago

I hear ya...but when 6 years old servers were configured with 1TB of RAM... shrugs

dijit 5y ago
Servers? Isn’t everything a VM now? (Only slightly kidding. Feels like nobody really wants to operate hardware these days so it’s all outsourced. The idea of paying for TiB memory VMs is insane!)
- melony 5y ago
  Still cheaper than hiring more developers, it is hard to make the business case for more robust software when outsourcing everything to AWS and throwing RAM at the problem is more cost effective than hiring bodies.

akvadrako 5y ago

It's not so much a parallel reality as you seem to have been transported from the past. These days a calculator app might take 540MB.

MuffinFlavored 5y ago
Opened Calculator on my Mac, 26mb according to Activity Monitor

nwmcsween 5y ago

Sorry this is the k8s train, anything less than 1GB of ram is lightweight, anything less than 768MB is featherweight and anything lower than 512MB doesn't exist.

djupblue 5y ago

So here's a challenge if anyone is up for it: Build a container orchestration engine that can run in 16MB of RAM on top of a Linux kernel. Must have: - Some form of networking (duh) - Distributed state - Distributed message queue (simple) - Distributed scheduler - Logging Out of scope: - Authorization/Authentication/Encryption - REST/JSON/SSL/Web

MuffinFlavored 5y ago
distributed state like memcached? what is popular for lightweight distributed message queue? what is popular for lightweight distributed scheduler? is cron.. "distributed"?
codedokode 5y ago
Do you need all of that for a software run on a Raspberry Pi (as article suggests) or similar embedded devices? I think just one application binary should be enough.
- netizen-936824 5y ago
  Is there some reason all of those things could not exist in the same binary?