Parler's Spec WishList for Hosting Providers
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40x i3.metal
70x db.r5.24xlarge
300x m5.2xlarge
No one at this scale pays list prices, but still, ouch.
Also, everyone always talks about instance cost first, but consider this: 100-120gb Internet egress per minute comes out at another $200k-$300k per month.
What was parler's DAU at their peak?
Probably assumed they would get away with just adding more hardware, even though I guess that bit wasn't their downfall in the end.
Also, it seems like an obscene amount of RAM is required for such a platform, and I'd assume for most hot content that RAM would be relevant, but given their scale I think they could get by with a lot less.
Is there something non-obvious in their service that could use a huge fraction of the hardware? Media transcoding?
If I were them I’d try to get back up as soon as possible with 10% that hardware even if it meant e.g no access outside the US or no media transcoding at all or whatever MVP version they can create.
Any good sized centrally located DC would be able to meet those requirements, but you'd need to drop a couple mill up front for the servers.
Seems like a lot of tech but maybe it is normal for a Twitter like social app?
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Also see the story about how they used to have sequential integer IDs as primary keys (sigh)
https://lensa.com/golang-developer-jobs/henderson/jd/4790155...
That said, I agree with your point they aren't using Golang widely, and it looks like from the job ads they primarily use node.js and are moving towards Golang. I have no real hard facts for that other than just reading the job ads (if you click their name in the link above it shows many open positions).
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