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> The Mastodon software is not horizontally scalable. Intentionally by design, or just a "MVP"/MLP limitation?
by losteric 4y ago
> The Mastodon software is not horizontally scalable.
Intentionally by design, or just a "MVP"/MLP limitation?
- speedgoose 4y agoThe current architecture is not designed to be horizontally scalable. You need one big primary database node. That works well if you are willing to optimise a lot, see the one example: stackoverflow. But it requires a lot of efforts and cannot scale that much. One could probably create a new implementation that scale though.
- losteric 4y agoI'm very new to the project. Do you happened to know if the software architecture is inherently coupled to that physical tech choice (one big postgresql)? I have seen some well architected RoR apps sidestep that limitation, but they seem to be the exception.