by DLA on 10/2/2023, 2:16:25 AM
Doing something like this—add fault tolerance mechanism(s)—and your potential attack surface is exponentially reduced compared to “typical” microservice architectures.
There are also potential performance gains because there’s a lot less network hopping around.
I’ve done some big data processing using a single big box strategy in the past and it worked very well—as the saying goes, “distribute when you must.”
by klysm on 10/1/2023, 11:40:55 PM
Fault tolerance.
This is literally a behemoth. Just rent it. Put all your DB, workers, servers, mailers, on this server.
While that is stupid, feel free to use it as a CI tool as well! Running 384 docker containers in parallel to check all your puppeteer/playwright tests
Bonus point, although grey area - run a monero or similar miner in a low priority to cashback 10% of the server cost.
Now serious question - why would you need microservices, cloud, kubernetes, lambdas and other fun things at all if you can get it working as a monolith just for $2K (ok, let it be $5K with extras) ???