You know that happens with centralised sites too, right? It’s invisible because all the redundant servers are behind the same domain name.
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freamon@endlesstalk.org 8 months ago
Wait, what? A user posts a thing to a server, and that thing isn’t then duplicated to 50 other servers … yeah, I don’t see how that can work.
(I’m just kidding - your site looks neat.)
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
essteeyou@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t think they were talking about actual physical hardware.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Large centralised systems have international mirrors, you know that right?
And even if they were somehow all in the same building, that wouldn’t be a good thing. Redundancy makes a service robust, and copying data isn’t exactly difficult.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m commenting on the impression that the guy was talking about the fact that the system is not federated, not that he was talking about physical hardware.
For what it’s worth, I’m a senior developer who spent 8 years at Amazon partially working on developing and scaling systems that received millions of requests per day.
x0x7@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Thanks