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Seems like a bunch of buzzwords and such. I've been working with databases for years for one of the largest companies in the world and no one has ever said "topology" before.

Any time I would save with this is wasted on learning java and this framework.

There isn't anything wrong with databases.

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Our production-ready, Twitter-scale Mastodon implementation in 100x less code than Twitter wrote to build the equivalent feature-set (just the consumer product) begs to differ that it's "a bunch of buzzwords". https://github.com/redplanetlabs/twitter-scale-mastodon

Is it actually powering a site the scale of twitter? If no, then there is no reason to think its twitter scale.

Exactly this. Filling some kind of a database with terabytes of data is not the difficult bit, serving it is...

To claim that something static is "Twitter-scale" is just misleading IMO.

They _did_ serve the data. From TFA:

> To demonstrate its scale, we operated the instance with 100M bots posting 3,500 times per second at 403 average fanout.

The linked post about their demo [1] has more details about the challenges involved, including rendering home timelines.

[1]: https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the...

Meh,its better than nothing, but real world traffic is often very different than simulated traffic. If it isn't actually working with real traffic than i am not impressed.

Amen

To me, this looks like an example of those ads that look like this

edit ( tried to do a text table right on here but it got really messed up in the page display)

here is a screenshot of the effort

https://imgur.com/a/XtwSkyx

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