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An IRC network server can serve what, a few hundred thousands of concurrent users’ text messages on a single PC. Twitter has around 200 million daily user, pea
by kaba0 4y ago
An IRC network server can serve what, a few hundred thousands of concurrent users’ text messages on a single PC.
Twitter has around 200 million daily user, peaking up to a billion, running on their own server farm. They are not remotely comparable, especially if we note that read-write dbs are notoriously hard to scale.
- uwagar 4y agothank you, i was trying to be provocative to learn more. otoh, to get an automation going is like climbing mount everest the first time? very hard but makes it easier to scale subsequent attempts?