Am a firm believer that a billion dollar company (Saas, etc) can be run with very sane and simple stack:
- 1x web-server [$FOSS_or_COSS, iis] # COSS => commerical open source e.g caddy. nginx is both
- 1x application-server [.net, java, python, php, and all other langs. heck PERL too!]
- 1x database-server [$FOSS_or_COSS, sql-server, oracle, etc]
Virtualized or baremetal. Containers not necessary!
Increase it by 2 or 3 for HA if you so desire.
Engineering teams should aspire to advocate "We run this entire thing on these few resources vs our application runs on 26k nodes" The latter just means we've lost the plot and throwing money to solve a problem. Forgive my sarcasm here, but well done k8s&&containers!
Don't see any reason why FB can't run on the same comparative hardware as SO. I.e. replace the CCSS (commercial closed source software) bits with the FOSS/COSS ones. And when we take it in as a whole, this is much more greener/sustainable to work with.
Also, there is a legend out there that I heard of many moons ago :) ... THERE is a billion dollar company running on a single sql-server and single iis web-server
Engineering teams should aspire to advocate "We run this entire thing on these few resources vs our application runs on 26k nodes" The latter just means we've lost the plot and throwing money to solve a problem. Forgive my sarcasm here, but well done k8s&&containers!
Don't see any reason why FB can't run on the same comparative hardware as SO. I.e. replace the CCSS (commercial closed source software) bits with the FOSS/COSS ones. And when we take it in as a whole, this is much more greener/sustainable to work with.
Also, there is a legend out there that I heard of many moons ago :) ... THERE is a billion dollar company running on a single sql-server and single iis web-server