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So being on the front page of hacker news twice in 24 hours. The multiplayer game of life game is running on a 15.59$/month 4 core AMD 8GB ram shared VPS (hetzn
by andersmurphy 1y ago
So being on the front page of hacker news twice in 24 hours. The multiplayer game of life game is running on a 15.59$/month 4 core AMD 8GB ram shared VPS (hetzner) and only at about 30% load. That's with a Clojure backend running very naive code.
- mattgreenrocks 1y agoI believe it. Part of the issue I suspect is that generation JS truly does not understand how fast the old school GC’d runtimes (e.g. JVM/CLR) are at this point.
- api 1y agoIt reminds me of the articles you see from time to time about how someone successfully moved millions of rows of data in the cloud for less than a hundred dollars or some such absurdity. It'd be hilarious if it weren't so deeply discouraging and tragic. You might have heard of Eroom's Law, which is Moore's Law backwards. It states that software bloat will soak up all gains from Moore's Law. Well, with cloud we now have a whole industry with an economic incentive to put Eroom's Law into practice, since cloud makes more money the more inefficient things can become. So to do what a simple local app could do in a minute must now be done across five different services with microservice backends, etc.
- andersmurphy 1y agoIt's not just the performance, it's that there is a lot less ecosystem churn. I can run Clojure/Java code I wrote 10 years ago and it will still work.