Jerry 🦙💝🦙Dec 16, 2022
Now at 1700 new accounts on the day @infosec.exchange. This is what it looks like on the load balancer:
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And this is what's happening at the CDN:
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Dec 16, 2022
And this is what the aggregate CPU on the PUMA servers look like (note, almost no change)
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Dec 16, 2022
And this is the aggregate load on the sidekiq servers (also, nearly no change)
Show threadViss
@jerry i wonder how soon there's gonna be a patch to replace sidekiq with something else.
Dec 16, 2022 at 11:37pmWeb
Show threadnullagentDec 16, 2022
@Viss @jerry Whenever that is, it wouldn't be too soon for my taste.
Show threadVissDec 16, 2022
@nullagent @jerry right? the biggest improvement to twitter back in the day was when they got the fuck off of ruby on rails
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Dec 16, 2022
@Viss perhaps. Now that I have experience with it, it's not the worst thing in the world.
Show threadVissDec 16, 2022

@jerry so it looks like other folks have figured out how to migrate from sidekiq to rabbitmq https://stanko.io/rabbitmq-is-more-than-a-sidekiq-replacement-b730d8176fb

(we run rabbitmq. its way more burly. we dumped redis to go to this)

RabbitMQ is more than a Sidekiq replacement | Stanko K.R.

A rabbit dressed up as the karate kid - a cross of RabbitMQ and Sidekiq logos I've had gripes with Sidekiq because of which I switched to RabbitMQ. Here a...

Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Dec 16, 2022
@Viss interesting - will have to look at it
Show threadVissDec 16, 2022
@jerry I imagine that its not gonna be super easy or straightforward to migrate from sidekiq to rabbitmq, but I would imagine that rabbit will treat your cpus and ram way better than sidekiq does
Show threadDan HonDec 16, 2022
@jerry @Viss oooh nice.
Show threadVissDec 16, 2022
@danhon @jerry this post doesnt have anything to do with mastodon specifically tho - but, you gotta start somewhere :D
Show threadCompuguy 🐱Dec 16, 2022
@Viss @jerry I doubt it. I've followed a guide and spit off the scheduler and mailer queues to a separate container. The rest can be scaled up to meet demand.