How RedPlanetLabs reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x

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• BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They say they they wrote it in 10k lines, while twitter was 1M, but are they including all the packages they’re using (assuming that they are)? Like I can say I built a website with 100 lines, but in reality if you compile all the packages I’m using it’s a shit ton more than that.

  Just a lazy thought out loud. Idk I’m probably being dumb

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  • SaintWacko@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, BRB, moving 90% of my codebase into an “external” library

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    • BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My app was written in one line: yarn run dev.

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• wosat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And it’s written in Java. Even though I’m not a huge fan of Java, it’s almost refreshing to see a new project claiming high performance that isn’t written in Rust or Go.

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• taaz@biglemmowski.win ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Souns too good to be true, there gotta be some catch.

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  • computergeek125@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    First catch is probably the LoC used to make that engine they’re talking about they wrote it in. You can set up an entire rudimentary webserver in Python in a dozen or so lines by starting off with import http.server. It won’t be a good production ready HTTP server but it will serve HTTP

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• OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do Lemmy next.

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• Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Huh. This looks… very cool. Hopefully, it’s true

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