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by anaganisk 1438 days ago
Imagine a floppy disk based old server surviving “Hug of deaths” while the latest react based static website hosted on Kubernetes for infinite scalability on baremetal dies in like 5 sec.
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Imagine indeed. This has been suffocated already it seems. Images can't even finish loading.
Images do not fully load but here I am 35 minutes after you and the website still responds. That's already better than many.
It stayed alive as long it could start going black carbon, much longer than others I think.
The blame would be on baremetal server. They would move to AWS with multi region EKS clusters and RDS with cross-region disaster recovery. And a multi-cloud strategy is also in place..
And edge caching on cloudflare or cloudfront.
Well, edge caching would almost certainly be enough with a decently high TTL. You don't need all that other junk :)