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Comment by klabb3

2 years ago

Yes. If you write your server in eg Go or Rust, you can have a “single executable deployment” so to say. But the main limitation is no horizontal scalability. So if you want web scale, you have to use something faster, like /dev/null.

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callamdelaney  2 years ago

Webscale always reminds me of this video [1] - MongoDB is webscale.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

edit: and now I believe you are directly referencing this but may be useful for others who don't get the reference

  • klabb3  2 years ago

    > and now I believe you are directly referencing this

    Yep haha.

    > but may be useful for others who don't get the reference

    Probably also yes. Important lore for techno-archeologists.