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This tidbit caught my eye: > Apple runs the world's largest known number of Cassandra/ScyllaDB instances with roughly 300,000 nodes as of 2022 The Big Tech ap
by apitman 2y ago
This tidbit caught my eye:
> Apple runs the world's largest known number of Cassandra/ScyllaDB instances with roughly 300,000 nodes as of 2022
The Big Tech approach to web services is like everyone piling on a cruise ship to commute to work. Certainly brings some conveniences, but the complexity is insane and overall it feels absurd.
The relatively new DB-per-tenant type approaches described in this article are more like renting/leasing a car, or maybe riding the bus to work. Definitely a step in the right direction.
The future will be a mix of these solutions, and selfhosting/indiehosting. Indiehosting is like owning a car. Once the software is as reliable as cars are, many more people will do it.
- NathanFlurry 2y agoAuthor here, love this take. I've chatted with a few medium-sized companies looking at Durable Objects for this reason. DB-per-tentant removes much of the need for another dedicated team to provision & maintain infrastructure for the services. It's almost like what microservices were trying to be but fell woefully short of achieving. It's disappointing (but understandable) that "serverless" received a bad rap. It's never going to fully replace traditional infrastructure, but it does solve a lot of problems.