You're going to have outages in production. They're inevitable. The question is how to best minimize outages, both their frequency and duration. Common wi...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21023181

Sharing some lessons I learned from 10 years/millions of users in production. I’ll be in the comments if anyone has any questions!

I hope this series will be useful to the self-hosted and small web crowds—tips for tools to pick and the basics of server management.

  • something_random_tho@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    51·
    11 days ago

    Hi friend, this was just meant to be an introduction, as I get started blogging and sharing back some knowledge and lessons I learned along the way. I’ve never written a blog before (or much of anything!), and I’m sorry you didn’t find value in this.

    I wasn’t intending to boast, but I can see how it came across. I just meant to say, “companies are trying to tell you that you need ‘XYZ’ to scale,” and at least at the size of business I ran, you didn’t need any fancy tech at all – we could have made do with a dead-simple setup: a single server running Go and SQLite. It’s something I wish I had known when I started.

    I’ll take your feedback to heart and try to produce larger, more substantial posts to follow. Thanks for commenting.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      11 days ago

      Well, apologies for being bluntly critical. I can offer a few constructive tips to help with writing about technical topics:

      • Try starting with a simple topic flow: topic -> synopsis/purpose of why you’re writing -> background -> observations -> point<>counterpoint loop to elaborate on purpose -> closing
      • Stay away from asserting your point in the title unless you’re showing definitive proof of something
      • Find ways to speak to who may find your writing useful towards the beginning. “If you have a similar problem like X…”, “People who use X may find…”, or “Anyone having similar X experience may find…”. Something like that.
      • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
        31·
        10 days ago

        I can offer some constructive tips to you as well: dont speak for all of us.

        I liked the article. I didn’t interpret it as “everyone must do what I say”. It was simply a viewpoint from a person on the internet. That is what a blog is.

        The complexity of tech stacks have increased enormously in the last 10 years, and it’s only sane to see what tradeoffs we are making to be able to scale easily. Perhaps it’s not worth the trouble for 90% of us. If we follow best practice from cloud providers without thinking for ourselves, we will not learn to think for ourselves either.

        So let’s do that. Let’s think, wrote blogs, discuss, and allow for discussions. Don’t shut people down.

        • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          10 days ago

          Wow, nobody should ever say anything then unless they’re on the right side of everyone else’s opinion or else they might be speaking for everyone. Great tip.

            • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
              12·
              10 days ago

              I criticized the WRITING of what turned out to be the OP for not having any content in their posted piece aside from a complaint about something. Never said he was wrong to feel how we feels about whatever.

    • TobberoneEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      I’ve been running that 40 dev/lots of costumers environment you mention, back in the days, and im looking forward to see how you do it:) i might just learn something useful. Some of the remedies were about as bad as the problems they were intended to solve.

      Anyways, it’s a long time ago by now. I’m curious to hear your take. Especially your take on hardening/security.