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by vishnugupta 830 days ago
Title: You don't need a database.

Half way down the article: The questions are stored in a sqlite database

2 comments

> It means that scalability would become an issue if and when Binary Duel is used by more than a few thousands of people an hour. In this fortunate case, I will be very happy to host the infrastructure on a K8 cluster with autoscaling, self-healing, a distributed database, a Redis server and so on.
FAQ

Does it scale?

No.

oh good

I am gonna be honest, I was laughing writing that part! :)