Tonight's Platform Update
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@Dashrender said:
Of course the problem with that is a single server, single point of failure.
With good database backups, we could mitigate that pretty easily. MongoDB does an export, compress, transport, decompress, restore with blinding speed. We just did it last night and it was insane how fast the entire site was able to be transported around.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Chances are in two years we will want to revisit the architecture and, at that time, there is a very good chance that getting a 100% boost in memory size will be obvious and simple, that per core CPU speeds will have increased, etc. The platform naturally gets faster underneath us in many ways. So the need for moving to a completely different approach is much farther off than you would think. Because of the type of site that we are, the scale that can be handled from the current design is pretty extreme.
Actually, this is exactly what I would expect. As the platform under the VMs becomes better as old hardware is replaced, I would expect there to be less need to migrate to something new. Sure you might need to assign more RAM, something that the underlying hardware might have more of now because it was upgraded, but the VM won't because, well that's not how that works. But when the CPU and disk are improved, the VM just gets those gains because everything on the system get those gains - not taking tiered storage into account.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Chances are in two years we will want to revisit the architecture and, at that time, there is a very good chance that getting a 100% boost in memory size will be obvious and simple, that per core CPU speeds will have increased, etc. The platform naturally gets faster underneath us in many ways. So the need for moving to a completely different approach is much farther off than you would think. Because of the type of site that we are, the scale that can be handled from the current design is pretty extreme.
Actually, this is exactly what I would expect. As the platform under the VMs becomes better as old hardware is replaced, I would expect there to be less need to migrate to something new. Sure you might need to assign more RAM, something that the underlying hardware might have more of now because it was upgraded, but the VM won't because, well that's not how that works. But when the CPU and disk are improved, the VM just gets those gains because everything on the system get those gains - not taking tiered storage into account.
Yup, and realistically we grow at a rather steady pace not like we get twenty fold increase in a month. So the underlying hardware tends to grow with us pretty steadily.
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NodeBB 1.0.2 is out. Might as well upgrade
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That was ridiculously fast, lol.
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We did a full update in under a minute!!
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Huzzah! What did it fix/change?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@nadnerB said:
Huzzah! What did it fix/change?
No idea
There's this thing called Changelog... Generally one should read it before applying said updates...
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A month in and Linode is still rocking it!
