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I’ve worked with a few, and seen a few built. IME they are never really worth it. They make the system much more complex, fragile and hard to debug. The scal
by lokar 1y ago
I’ve worked with a few, and seen a few built. IME they are never really worth it. They make the system much more complex, fragile and hard to debug. The scale limits they aim to help are just not a big deal anymore. A small group of “coordinator” nodes to do this is much simpler and easy to build and scale.
- __turbobrew__ 1y ago> The scale limits they aim to help are just not a big deal anymore. A small group of “coordinator” nodes to do this is much simpler and easy to build and scale. What changed that made it easier?
- lokar 1y agoFaster hardware (cpu and nic) and better low overhead networking APIs in Linux. One machine can manage really a ton of low volume connections.