3 ms·
why is the maintenance cost of a Mastodon instance so high? What is the technology stack?
by pmarreck 4y ago
why is the maintenance cost of a Mastodon instance so high? What is the technology stack?
- premysl 4y agoFrom my experience, both Mastodon and Pleroma are massively overcomplicated resource hogs that are hard to set up, configure, or navigate.
- pmarreck 4y agoPleroma too? Usually Elixir apps are much more efficient than RoR apps in my experience
- InitEnabler 4y agoMastodon was created using the Ruby on Rails framework. Your able to quickly write applications at the cost of overhead from all the moving parts and the Ruby language in general (Though in recent years ruby has improved with the introduction of JIT into it's codebase).
- pmarreck 4y agoAh, that makes sense then. I started out in Ruby years ago; wonderful language, doesn’t scale well. Someone should rewrite it in Phoenix… EDIT: Oh, someone did! https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma