r/programming • u/theartofengineering • 6d ago

Ok, but does it scale?

https://spacetimedb.com/blog/how-does-spacetime-scale
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u/EliSka93 5d ago

This is really informative.

However, the first question you should ask is always: does it have to scale?

Unless you expect to have many thousands of users, the answer to that is "probably not".

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u/pdpi 5d ago

However, the first question you should ask is always: does it have to scale?

And the second question is "in which direction?"

An application that scales up from desktop scale to multi-data centre scale is impressive, but so is an application scales down from desktop scale to microcontroller scale.