Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)
[...] Today, the Personal Data Servers are bare-metal servers hosted by cloud infrastructure vendor, Vultr. Bluesky currently operates 20 and shards them so that each PDS supports about 300,000 users. [...]
[...] **Owning your own infrastructure instead of using the cloud seems a rational choice.** Bluesky found large savings by moving off AWS once they could forecast the type of load they needed. Jake Gold, the engineer driving this transition, has been vocal about how cloud providers have become more expensive than many people realize. Speaking on the podcast, Last Week in AWS, he said:
> “With the original vision of AWS I first started using in 2006, or whenever launched, they said they would lower your bill every so often, as Moore’s law makes their bill lower. And that kind of happened a little bit here and there, but it hasn’t happened to the same degree as I think we all hoped it would.” [...]
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
#Bluesky #AWS
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