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Preston Doster joins the show to tell us what it takes to run a Mastodon server with 55,000 accounts and 11,000 monthly active users. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 off the team plan. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 100,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. System Initiative – The future of DevOps automation (is here!) — System Initiative is an intuitive, powerful, collaborative replacement for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). The free tier is awesome (no credit card required) and you can get started in 3 clicks. Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. Featuring:Preston Doster – Mastodon, GitHubJustin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInAutumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes:Interview Hachyderm Public grafana dashboard One correction about the cost to run Hachyderm. Preston said it’s about $600/mo and after the interview emailed me to let me know it’s closer to $1000/mo Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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  • This is Ship It!
  • Sponsor: Sentry
  • What are Webrings?
  • Start of Hachyderm
  • Traditional scaling
  • Extra stress
  • The Hachyderm team
  • Redis licensing
  • Manual deployment
  • Who gets paged?
  • Next fallover
  • Data residency
  • Why Germany?
  • The intent
  • Sponsor: Timescale
  • Threads metadata
  • Figuring out archiving
  • Long term risks
  • Thanks for joining us!
  • Outro


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