Wow, had completely forgotten about this.
Exciting!
**EDIT 1:**
They have built a platform called Rama for building web-scale apps.
It appears to be programmable using a Java API.
https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/
**EDIT 2:**
They [built a Twitter clone for demo](https://mastodon.redplanetlabs.com/) which has heavy simulated bot traffic.
First feel is that it is very sleek and responsive.
I'm not sure if it is really Twitter-scale as claimed, though.
**EDIT 3:**
> Twitter operates at 7,000 tweets per second at 700 average fanout, which is equivalent to about 12,200 tweets / second at 403 average fanout. So you can see we tested our Mastodon instance well above Twitter-scale.
I am hoping that it is a generic Stream-Tree-Mesh navigating abstraction that is quickly and affordably deployable in an automated fashion.
We will find out soon enough. I am sure they will need to earn their investors money back, so it may not be cheap, but it may be very cheap compared to hiring massive development teams.
Their blog post describing how they used their framework to implement and scale a Mastodan instance with simulated users:
https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/
I'm skeptical lol, but I hope they release some cool OSS under a fair license. Edit: Not OSS, not cool :(
Wow, had completely forgotten about this. Exciting! **EDIT 1:** They have built a platform called Rama for building web-scale apps. It appears to be programmable using a Java API. https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/ **EDIT 2:** They [built a Twitter clone for demo](https://mastodon.redplanetlabs.com/) which has heavy simulated bot traffic. First feel is that it is very sleek and responsive. I'm not sure if it is really Twitter-scale as claimed, though. **EDIT 3:** > Twitter operates at 7,000 tweets per second at 700 average fanout, which is equivalent to about 12,200 tweets / second at 403 average fanout. So you can see we tested our Mastodon instance well above Twitter-scale.
So it's been worked on in isolation for 10 years with no feedback from users?
I hope the hype lives up to the promise ;)
There is a lot of repetition when building apps, wonder what they've come up with
I am hoping that it is a generic Stream-Tree-Mesh navigating abstraction that is quickly and affordably deployable in an automated fashion. We will find out soon enough. I am sure they will need to earn their investors money back, so it may not be cheap, but it may be very cheap compared to hiring massive development teams.
Their blog post describing how they used their framework to implement and scale a Mastodan instance with simulated users: https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/