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Scaling Mastodon in the face of an exodus

Posted by mtset
Tags: web development, linux, mastodon, ruby, rails, ruby on rails, operations, redis, scaling, docker
https://nora.codes/post/scaling-mastodon-in-the-face-of-an-exodus/

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  1. mtset
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    Posted here at the request of @cmccabe.

    I recently moved to a well-established Mastodon (Hometown fork) server called weirder.earth, a wonderful community with several very dedicated moderators and longstanding links to other respected servers in the fediverse. Overall, it’s been lovely; the community is great, the Hometown fork has some nice ease-of-use features, and the moderators tend to squash spam and bigotry pretty quickly.

    Then Elon Musk bought Twitter.

    Posted here at the request of @cmccabe.

    5 votes
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    skybrian
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    Very nice writeup! I wonder why having more threads doesn't help much, versus adding more processes? Is this a Ruby thing?

    Very nice writeup!

    I wonder why having more threads doesn't help much, versus adding more processes? Is this a Ruby thing?

    4 votes
    1. mtset
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      Apparently beyond 25 threads, Sidekiq doesn't scale within a single process. I have no idea why; definitely a weird Ruby thing.

      Apparently beyond 25 threads, Sidekiq doesn't scale within a single process. I have no idea why; definitely a weird Ruby thing.

      5 votes
  3. Eric_the_Cerise
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    Excellent writeup ... this is the kind of work that will get Mastodon thru it's current growing pains. I used to follow her on Mastodon, IDK I stopped, or why. Just requested to refollow her.

    Excellent writeup ... this is the kind of work that will get Mastodon thru it's current growing pains.

    I used to follow her on Mastodon, IDK I stopped, or why. Just requested to refollow her.

    2 votes