Comment on Delusions of a Protocol
INeedMana@piefed.zip 3 weeks agoFrom the looks of AT, its farily linear because its really just operating on a set of giant event streams (like kafka).
Wouldn’t that mean that this stream will have to scale horizontally?
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes eventually, just like the instances do once enough users are hitting it. Its a matter of how much all servers in the network need to scale, but also the nature of the protocol itself. Streaming binary data is more performant than individual http api requests for instance. Event streams are the way to go un a decentrliazed network for sure.
INeedMana@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
With AP does the exchange have to be http requests? If every instance had a stream instead, would that break the protocol?
With decentralized AT, who would be maintaining the stream? On the image I don’t see a connection between the alternative firehose and right-side pds’
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I suppose technically someone could implement streaming using AP payloads. So long as the format of the payloads are the same they could translate. It would be a different thing though without the pull part of it