“When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” — Viktor Frankl

I recently moved into a new apartment and hadn’t had the chance to set up my work desk. Now, I’m finally able to sit down, focus, and get some work done.

When it comes to on-premise setup, you need lot more than that. And somehow one engineer does everything...

An unordered / non-exhaustive list of things that helped scale Bluesky's infra efficiently:

+ Exiting the cloud (colocation)
+ HAProxy w/many Node backends
+ Go w/clever code
+ ScyllaDB
+ SQLite w/per user databases
+ Redis w/many instances
+ AMD servers w/many cores
+ Purchasing bandwidth directly