Ernie SmithAug 15, 2023

This is really fascinating. A company rebuilt Mastodon’s core functions with a new dev technology that flies in comparison to Ruby on Rails. https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/

(EDIT: They may not be open sourcing the dev tech)

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

I’m going to cover a lot of ground in this post, so here’s the TLDR: We built a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code. This is 100x less code than the ~1M lines Twi…

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Show threadScott ArmitageAug 15, 2023
@ernie it sounds like it needs to run on “Rama”, and I didn’t see anything about Rama itself being open sourced or even publicly/freely available, now or in the future.
Show threadErnie SmithAug 15, 2023

@scottarmitage “In one week we will release a version of Rama that anyone can download and use. This version simulates Rama clusters within a single process and can be used to explore the full Rama API and build complete prototypes. We will also release the Rama documentation at that time.“

It sounds like they're slow-rolling it. I'll take out the “open-source” modifier for now

Show threadScott Armitage
@ernie @scottarmitage no need, just making conversation and thinking out loud :)
Aug 15, 2023 at 9:22pmMammoth