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Written by Jason Gorman on 2025-01-30 at 12:51

Software scale's like a pyramid. At the tip of the pyramid, you've got your "hyperscale" applications like Google Search and Facebook that require so much hardware that you need complex infrastructure to manage it all.

At the base of the pyramid are the applications that could be handled by a couple of medium-powered servers being managed with a few bash scripts.

For some reason, we all seem to believe we're at the tip of the pyramid.

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Written by Jason Gorman on 2025-01-30 at 12:57

A Raspberry PI could cope with a million visitors a week without breaking a sweat.

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Written by Jason Gorman on 2025-01-30 at 12:59

If you're worried about peak loads, push the boat out and get another Raspberry Pi. Heck, get four! Spare no expense!

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Written by samir, a very hard worker on 2025-01-30 at 13:06

@jasongorman Just checked and my Raspberry Pi, which runs this Mastodon instance, handles about 50,000 requests per day. And as you may be aware, ActivityPub is not exactly lightweight.

That’s most of its work, but of course it’s doing other things too.

Currently running at around 10% of max CPU, and RAM is at around 25%.

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Written by Jason Gorman on 2025-01-30 at 13:11

@samir I vote we start a new movement: "Small Tech"

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Written by Enrique Comba Riepenhausen ✅ on 2025-01-30 at 13:35

@jasongorman @samir I was talking to some folk the other day about business ideas and Saas. I told them that I’m mostly interested in simple, boring ideas. They might seem irrelevant for us tech folk, but for the people using them they are heaven sent.

At the same time, you can excel technically when the problem you are solving is simple 😉

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Written by Jason Gorman on 2025-01-30 at 13:36

@ecomba @samir I think the real genius is in making it simple and keeping it that way. I think we can learn more from, say, Criaglist than from Amazon.

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Written by Enrique Comba Riepenhausen ✅ on 2025-01-30 at 13:38

@jasongorman @samir absolutely!

It’s also a case of realistic expectations. Building a business that makes you 10k a month is hard, but attainable to almost anyone. A billion ARR business, well…

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Written by Jason Gorman on 2025-01-30 at 13:45

@ecomba @samir It's like building a helicopter landing pad in your garden just in case you win the lottery jackpot

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Written by Jason Gorman on 2025-01-30 at 13:46

@ecomba @samir And I can't help wondering if this obsession over hyperscaling distracts from meeting the needs of users today

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Toot

Written by Enrique Comba Riepenhausen ✅ on 2025-01-30 at 13:49

@jasongorman @samir that’s not even a debate — of course it does! It feeds the ones who inverted billions. Solving the problems of Pete who runs a small business with Sue isn’t appealing to those investors.

What most don’t realise is that you don’t need investors to bootstrap your company to solve real people’s problems.

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