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I worked in one product that a "simple" re-architecture from rails 3 to rails 5+(async-as-most-as-we-can) was more than enough to handle MAU into millions and s
by rodrigodlu 3y ago
I worked in one product that a "simple" re-architecture from rails 3 to rails 5+(async-as-most-as-we-can) was more than enough to handle MAU into millions and simultaneous sessions in high thousands. Enough for a big exit for the founders indeed and having an edge against other players using golang, but with double the headcount than my case.
We also got 98~100 lighthouse by using pure JS with sprinkles of stimulus after the initial rendering.
- JustLurking2022 3y agoThousands of simultaneous sessions isn't all that many, if you are scaling your infra to dozens of servers. Can be handled by a single server, if code is optimized.
- rodrigodlu 3y ago4x16gb/2x offpeak pure ec2 deployed with codedeploy that was easily paid and profitable 2x8gb elasticsearch 1x512mb redis 1xRDS mysql 16gb low thousands/year of cloudflare enterprise half of the budget (personnel+infra) than the next competitor in the niche I worked