[prepperdev]

Copying their requirements as text (original grammar preserved, including GB and Gb confusions).

It's a good glimpse of what unlimited cloud budget does to companies. I quote:

"""

* 40x i3.Metal instances (64 vCPU's, 512 Gb ram (more ram, of course, better for those)), 14 Tb nVME e/a (Scylla cluster)

* 70-100x (96 vCPUs, 768 GB RAM) - 4 Tb nVME e/a (PSQL cluster, could use more RAM and CPU, but not easy to get)

* 300-400 various other instances, less picky, generally 8-16 cores w/ 32-64 Gb of ram as available

* Internal traffic ~300-400 Gb of traffic/minute

* External traffic ~100-120 Gb of traffic/minute

"""

[ev1]

Wait, is this a joke? This sounds like the worst built infrastructure I've ever heard of where they had more money than engineering sense.

Also, Gbpm.

[prepperdev]

I don't believe it's a joke. It still might be a deliberate lie (a random twit is not a real source of knowledge), but so far this is consistent with what we already know. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25769730

[eejit_compiler]

By my calculations, this is somewhere between 11,680 and 18,560 vCPUs and 83,840 to 122,880 GB of RAM they're asking for.

Seems rather excessive for a mid-tier social networking website.

[h2odragon]

What's that total up to in "expected AWS bill per week", say?

[ev1]

It's at least 6 digits a month for the first item alone not including bandwidth, IP, NATGW, or load balancer

[sschueller]

What language is this thing written in that it requires this kind of computing power? Is it an Electron app? /jk

[tinus_hn]

It’s the server side

[sschueller]

I know, it was supposed to be a joke but I guess I didn't manage to get it across that way.

[Can_Not]

I thought it was clearly a joke, implying they had electron running server-side, maybe even running their app through cypress in production for time travel debugging?

But I actually do want to know they language(s) and framework(s).