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kbin's in PHP/Symfony - I wonder how its instances will handle scaling, considering even (Rust-based) Lemmy instances are facing issues with the not-even-that-m
by creamyhorror 3y ago
kbin's in PHP/Symfony - I wonder how its instances will handle scaling, considering even (Rust-based) Lemmy instances are facing issues with the not-even-that-massive influx of visitors. Also, I like kbin's design better, but calling topics/subforums "Magazines" is a bit strange.
Wish there were one or two more good options in other languages. I know about Calckay/Misskey but they seem more microblog-like and not organised by topic at the top level.
Being able to port identity and posts/content between ActivityPub servers also seems like an issue, but I don't know if any major project has already solved that.
- lolinder 3y agoThe bottleneck in web apps very rarely is in hot loops that benefit from native-code speed. Most of the time you spend waiting for an HTTP response is either waiting in line to be processed or waiting for the database or other external services to do the heavy processing. Optimizing on web means ensuring you're processing the queue efficiently and making fewer, more efficient database calls. I'm not familiar with either implementation, but I wouldn't place an a priori bet on Rust over PHP for web. We've had many many years to figure out how to build efficient PHP apps and very little time to figure that out in Rust.